Pump Up Your Enjoyment Levels By Making New Friends!

I’m a type one diabetic. I was on a cruise ship with my family, and sometimes I would be stopped on my way out of the ship because of my insulin pump. (It can’t go through an X-ray scanner.)

I was stopped at one point with this other guy, who jokingly asked me:

Guy: “What are you in for?”

Me: “Insulin pump.”

Guy: “No way!”

And he took out his pump! We laughed and shared diagnosis stories.

The next day, he came up to me in the buffet, thanking God he’d found me. His pump wasn’t waterproof, and he’d jumped into a pool. He’d also forgotten to bring insulin vials that could fit into a manual pen. I was able to give him insulin, and we got some coffee together.

We never traded contact information, and I never saw him again, but he was a cool dude.