@seasiderdave Yes, all pumpers need to bathe in surgical spirit daily to avoid site infections. You soon get used to the smell 
I haven’t ordered it on prescription for decades, I just remember us having a bottle in the cupboard that was prescribed to swab my skin with as a child before injecting – thankfully my parents decided against actually using it on me, otherwise I’d have skin like leather now!
@Tim No, we’d gone posh that night and were drinking beer instead