Hello! Long time no speak dear minute readership! Well, I am now live on my pump and have been for just short of three weeks. It's quite wonderful. The first few days were nigh on perfect in terms of blood sugars. Now that any traces of that horrible thing Levemir are out of my system a few changes have been made. I've upped my basal overnight as I've been waking up on blood glucoses of ten millimoles per litre or more. Hopefully a basal rate of one point one units per hour from nine at night to seven in the morning will sort it out. Tomorrow will be the judge of that and the jurors will be the next few days. I hope my nurse doesn't mind that I've upped things without consulting him. Fingers crossed it works though. I can't say how good this thing is at helping me deal with the amounts of stress that I've been under. It's quite something to not have to give injections on a daily basis. I now just get issues with the cannulas and reservoirs to entertain me in the place of injections! I now have funding and that has been cleared with the lovely folk at Medtronic. Tuesday will see me ordering a load of stuff to stock up on for the next few months.
I really can't describe well enough what this means for me. It's given me something to focus on so my life now has a little more purpose than it used to given what's happened over the holidays. It's also given me the tools to use in getting that wonderful thing known as the HbA1C (glycosylated haemoglobin) down below eight percent for the first time in years. I'm sort of dreading the first post pump start HbA1C that I will be getting around next month.
Don't say I didn't warn you that this blog would be a somewhat erratic journal of my diabetes! So far I think this has come true! Here's to the next HbA1C and the next post... Whenever those may be!
keep blogging about it tom - it's really interesting to read!
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