View Full Version : Navigator- Kinked Sensor!!
hold48398
10-13-2008, 12:29 PM
We pulled this one out of Mia's arm this morning after the unit failed to let us do our first calibration... No wonder:eek:!!!
http://i33.tinypic.com/2uq0z0i.jpg
PS. Abbott is sending us a new sensor as replacement...
ecs1516
10-13-2008, 01:10 PM
Sorry that happened!
Was the end of the sensor in the skin? It looks like it was. Wonder if you hit something like muscle?? I have had a bend end of the sensor but it was bent at the top where it goes in. What happened to us is that the tape had gotten loose after a game and I did not 'fix' it soon enough. I fixed it that night by putting more opsite on top after cutting the loose away. It soon began reading low numbers with a straight down arrow. It checked with a BG meter and it was not true. It finally got to 'low' and asked if I had removed the sensor. I pulled the sensor and saw that when I retaped down it must have already been out of the skin and I pressed it down 90 degree when I put on the tape. Yours doesn't look like ours did.
Mama Belle
10-13-2008, 02:06 PM
Oh no!!! That doesn't look pretty! Did it hurt Mia at all?
hold48398
10-13-2008, 02:21 PM
Well, it didn't feel "right" to Mia but it didn't hurt, either. She just kept saying that she knew it will be a bad sensor. I held on to my last hope and tried it all night anyways (after getting multiple calibration errors and codes). I will learn to listen better next time!!