Things Not To Do With Your Insulin Pump

I suppose it’s not the best idea to let a kitten eat the tube connecting you to your mechanical pancreas — but it was so funny, I couldn’t help it.

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Catherine Price

Catherine Price (www.catherine-price.com) was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was 22 years old. She has written for publications including The Best American Science Catherine Price is a professional journalist who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was 22 years old. Her work has been featured in publications including The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times, Popular Science, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post Magazine, Salon, Slate, Men’s Journal, Health Magazine, The Oprah Magazine, and Outside, among others. A graduate of Yale and UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism

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Julie

Oh you bad kitty!

Laura G.

OK, that is really cute. But I hope it’s a friend’s kitten, not your kitten, because he’s just learned how incredibly fun that is, and if he’s yours, someday soon he’ll seek out the tubing while you’re asleep and bite through it with his little teeth.

Allison

The world’s most expensive cat toy.