u/anniemdi

Basically, the title. If your home library is currently being pushed as a source for non-resident cards, or has been in the past how are your experiences with wait times, holds, anount of books that can be borrowed or other services like Hoopla?

I used to have a non-resident card (that I legally went through the process to pay for) until I found out how expensive digital services are for communities and we were given notice that the amount of loans and holds would be cut. This was before last years federal funding cut in the US.

Since then I have been trying to drum up local support and local funding for my home library.

Now I cringe seeing people recommending non-resident cards here, as this isn't a tiny community in the corner of a forgotten place but a bustling large global community. I worry the affects it has on the population of people that rely on their home library that their taxes and own fundraising efforts maintain.

So how are you folks?

Note: I chose CGM Hardware as my flair, as flair is a requirement to post. However, this isn't really about the hardware or the adhesive on the the hardware, it is about keeping the CGM on with best practices for prep, including finishing covering the CGM with an overpatch as recommended by the manufacturer.

With that out of the way, I (over 18, non-diabetic,) am using Abbott's Lingo on the back of my upper arms alternating arms and varying location.

My prep to biosensor placement has been using plain, non-moisturizing soap to wash my arms in the shower. When my arms are dry I swab with alcohol. When the alcoholic is dry I swab with SkinTac wipes, place my sensor and cover it.

I have been using Lingo since April 6th. I had no problems with two sensor placements and on day 22 I felt pain at the edge of my sensor cover. I thought nothing much of it after looking at it and went to sleep. On day 23 I woke up and looked at the cover and saw red opposite of the edge where I felt pain. I removed my sensor cover and used a knuckle bandage (shaped like the letter H) to partially cover the sensor and give it more security while giving my arm the least amount of coverage. On day 24 I removed the knuckle bandage as it was very painful. My skin was absolutely awful in one particular small spot. This is when I realized I didn't clean off the adhesive left on my skin from day 22. I wiped it off the best I could and used a barrier paste to soothe the worst spot. I finally found relief and that night as I was getting into bed my sensor ripped off. Fine. I lost like 2.5 days of sensor time. The data and connectivity wasn't particularly good during the last days of my first sensor. Not a big deal.

I washed my arm the morning of day 25 and removed all of the adhesive with wipes made for this use.

I followed the process I have been using for placing the sensor except I stopped using the CGM-specific polyurethane patches I purchased on Amazon and switched to Tegaderm because it has never given me a problem in all my years using it.

Y'all it was on for about 16 hours and while it wasn't painful the edges of the patch were very, very red. So I removed the Tegaderm and cleaned off the adhesive and the redness lessened by 80% immediately.

I already take an H1 blocker (once a day) and H2 blocker (twice a day) for allergies and acid reflux disease, respectfully. I always feel my best when I take both as is known to happen for some folks.

Anyone have any advice for keeping this sensor on? Products? Tips and tricks? Better processes?

It's entirely possible it's the SkinTac is causing the issue but I am not sure. I won't use it under my next sensor to know.

These are the CGM-specific patches I used twice prior to the Tegaderm.

I also have this with it's two patches but I haven't tried it yet. Bumper guard thing.