Overheard: The Mothership.
"Mom, that lady has special powers and is an alien. I know because I saw her alien transmitter in her pocket and it has wires and it talks directly to her body using that tube. I saw it. She can't hide from me because I saw it and it looked that's how she communicates with the mothership but she's safe and she didn't seem scared, right?"
It's at that point that I felt the need to explain to the eight year old boy's mother that it was an insulin pump.
Comments
Oh the innocence and imagination of a child! Love it!!!
Posted by: Sue/RFamHere | July 27, 2011 09:17 AM
That is super funny!!
Posted by: Kassie Tyvela | July 27, 2011 09:21 AM
I totally love that. But, if I were you, I probably would have done increasingly weirder and weirder stuff...like put pop rocks in my mouth and pretend to talk to him...
Posted by: Roselady | July 27, 2011 09:27 AM
OMG! That has got to be the cutest thing EVER!!
Posted by: Cara | July 27, 2011 09:49 AM
Oh, my gosh, that's just too cute! I remember thinking that everything had some weird/cool back story to it and it made the world such a fun place. Oh, the unbridled imagination of a child!
(And BTW, I remember thinking that my neighbor's insulin pump was a pedometer. Communication devicde for the mothership is WAY cooler.)
Posted by: Alyssa | July 27, 2011 10:15 AM
I love it! Aren't kids and their imaginations great?
Posted by: Nicole | July 27, 2011 10:20 AM
*rotfl* This got the biggest laugh from me in quite awhile. :)
Posted by: Rachel | July 27, 2011 10:29 AM
That is awesome! Kids say the darndest things don't they? ha ha
Posted by: Amanda S. | July 27, 2011 10:44 AM
That's hysterical! But Ker, you DO have special powers and your pump IS how you communicate with the mothership. :-) the kid even realized that your device affords a sense of comfort....I love it! And may start referring to myself as an alien too!
Posted by: jules | July 27, 2011 11:12 AM
That is a MUCH more entertaining guess than "pager". :)
Posted by: Bob P | July 27, 2011 11:32 AM
That is seriously awesome.
I'm not sure I would have been so generous -- I probably would have tried to freak the kid out more. I don't know what that would have consisted of, but I'm pretty sure I would have made and ass of myself.
Posted by: Kevin | July 27, 2011 11:47 AM
That's incredibly awesome! I would have gone up and said," Take me to your leader." Or: "I like your planet, human." I wonder what he'd do if another PWD came over and did a pump bump. He would've fallen over... :))
Posted by: Mike Hoskins | July 27, 2011 11:52 AM
What's weird is I HAVE been communicating with aliens thru my pump.
Smart kid. ;)
Posted by: SuperG | July 27, 2011 12:18 PM
Mmmm hmmmm, that's what you keep trying to tell us. But I secretly know you really are communicating with aliens on the mothership with that thing!! Which explains why you tend to run out of time for your email inbox. :P (PS: I swear, that last sentence is purely meant in jest - not as a nagging episode!!)
Posted by: Karen | July 27, 2011 12:42 PM
I was once checking my blood glucose and licked the blood drop on my finger after testing only to hear a small child nearby stage whisper 'Mummy, is that a vampire?' I felt the need to jump in and explain too! :)
Posted by: a.k.a Dia...Betty | July 27, 2011 01:25 PM
Gotta love 8yr olds!! :)
Posted by: Denise aka Mom of Bean | July 27, 2011 02:23 PM
I can not wait to read this to my 8 year old daughter who started the pump last week. She is going to belly laugh.
Posted by: Amanda | July 27, 2011 02:27 PM
You can't make this stuff up!
Posted by: Suze | July 27, 2011 06:23 PM
I absolutely LOVE this. :)
Posted by: PrincessLadyBug | July 27, 2011 08:53 PM
I totally LOVE this! I so needed that laugh...and some of the comments are priceless too!
Posted by: Michelle | July 27, 2011 09:21 PM
That is awesome!!! I may try telling people that the next time! I love coming up with crazy stories!!!
Posted by: Jessica | July 27, 2011 09:41 PM
And this is why I love diabetes...
Posted by: Alicia Miller | July 27, 2011 10:04 PM
No, dont love diabetes, but this is truely why I love the DOC7
Posted by: Barbara | July 28, 2011 12:56 AM
That cracked me up!!!!
Posted by: Nell | July 28, 2011 11:52 AM
Oh. My. God. That is an amazing anecdote.
Posted by: Hannah | July 28, 2011 02:11 PM
When my son, in his 20's first saw a pump on me, he called me the Bionic Woman. But I'd REALLY rather be an alien! :-)
Posted by: Natalie Sera | July 31, 2011 01:11 AM
I had a 6-year old girl ask about my Dexcom sensor once, and I explained, but finished with "and also it makes me a robot", an explanation she totally accepted and repeated to various adults for the rest of the evening.
Posted by: Claire | August 3, 2011 10:01 AM