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Voodoo Magic … Aliens … help, my belly beeps … ???
Since yesterday my belly tries to communicate with me.
About every two hours I’m getting dubious messages from him that sound like a “Ping, … ahh … beep … !!!”. 
For proof, I have turned on the dictation app on my smartphone and placed it on my belly, hear for yourself the 9 seconds MP3 …
What does he want? Cookies, beer, … or is it perhaps my drug pump screaming …
In 2008 a half year after my accident a drug pump was implanted in my abdominal cavity, that delivers the dope via a tube and a needle directly between the vertebra into the cerebrospinal fluid (see older blog).
Without this pump I wouldn’t be able to enjoy life anymore, but it also bears a certain risk.
There are medi pumps with battery or gas pressured. The gas pressured ones have a usability of allegedly 25 years.
Mine is a “built-in” battery-operated pump, the Medtronic Synchromed II type with a drug reservoir of 40 ml, small it is not …
It is implanted under the skin; similar to a breast enlargement I have a very visible belly enlargement.
The pump is programmable from the outside and needs to be completely replaced after 6-7 years, because by then the batteries are empty.
This is inconvenient, but new hardware every few years can’t hurt.
The alarm of the pump can be turned off with a programming device. Unfortunately, I don’t happen to have one sitting on my shelf.
Translator BW
Voodoo Magic … Aliens … help, my belly beeps … ???
Since yesterday my belly tries to communicate with me.
About every two hours I’m getting dubious messages from him that sound like a “Ping, … ahh … beep … !!!”.
For proof, I have turned on the dictation app on my smartphone and placed it on my belly, hear for yourself the 9 seconds MP3 …
What does he want? Cookies, beer, … or is it perhaps my drug pump screaming …
In 2008 a half year after my accident a drug pump was implanted in my abdominal cavity, that delivers the dope via a tube and a needle directly between the vertebra into the cerebrospinal fluid (see older blog).
Without this pump I wouldn’t be able to enjoy life anymore, but it also bears a certain risk.
There are medi pumps with battery or gas pressured. The gas pressured ones have a usability of allegedly 25 years.
Mine is a “built-in” battery-operated pump, the Medtronic Synchromed II type with a drug reservoir of 40 ml, small it is not …
It is implanted under the skin; similar to a breast enlargement I have a very visible belly enlargement.
The pump is programmable from the outside and needs to be completely replaced after 6-7 years, because by then the batteries are empty.
This is inconvenient, but new hardware every few years can’t hurt.
The alarm of the pump can be turned off with a programming device. Unfortunately, I don’t happen to have one sitting on my shelf.
Translator BW
