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<blockquote data-quote="ann34+" data-source="post: 816184" data-attributes="member: 94348"><p>Thanks, Jeannie, interesting, and very interesting that Scotland still has Health Boards - i suspect you may even have old style GPs, even giving 24 hour cover.... Re the website you gave, it seems the chunk of money mentioned was allocated to children and 18 and under, and only then slowly spread out to adults - i imagine there is some left, so a larger pool of interested people can be offered treatment, and maybe less Type one adults want a pump than had been envisaged.. .. Here in England we may have started earlier, but then had funding problems later . Re Dafne course, i realise the reason i have not done one is that i was being pump trained pre Dafne! First over 35 yrs ago by a group of doctors for a study, then by pump makers 20 or 25 yrs ago when pump makers were trying to encourage use, and offering trials free. i had completely forgotten - there were even 3 or 4 others in my group - the older i get the more i appreciate the phrase 'the mists of time'! Funding hopes faded, but my insulin use was even more variable than now - much as some other women in other threads here have described - and i had many doubts. Re your own 'to pump or not to pump' dilemma, i am still puzzled as to why you want one with your diabetes being as it is! But if a trial is offered, you have little to lose. Either you love it, and realise your present system was not all what you thought it was, or you go back to your old system with a sigh of relief. I would add that i did find it a bit more of an of an effort to change than i had expected, but i was in a very different situation to yours, and had to change urgently because of other serious health issues. Hope you post as to how you like your pump trial - i have a feeling you may have already decided to go for one!. Ann</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ann34+, post: 816184, member: 94348"] Thanks, Jeannie, interesting, and very interesting that Scotland still has Health Boards - i suspect you may even have old style GPs, even giving 24 hour cover.... Re the website you gave, it seems the chunk of money mentioned was allocated to children and 18 and under, and only then slowly spread out to adults - i imagine there is some left, so a larger pool of interested people can be offered treatment, and maybe less Type one adults want a pump than had been envisaged.. .. Here in England we may have started earlier, but then had funding problems later . Re Dafne course, i realise the reason i have not done one is that i was being pump trained pre Dafne! First over 35 yrs ago by a group of doctors for a study, then by pump makers 20 or 25 yrs ago when pump makers were trying to encourage use, and offering trials free. i had completely forgotten - there were even 3 or 4 others in my group - the older i get the more i appreciate the phrase 'the mists of time'! Funding hopes faded, but my insulin use was even more variable than now - much as some other women in other threads here have described - and i had many doubts. Re your own 'to pump or not to pump' dilemma, i am still puzzled as to why you want one with your diabetes being as it is! But if a trial is offered, you have little to lose. Either you love it, and realise your present system was not all what you thought it was, or you go back to your old system with a sigh of relief. I would add that i did find it a bit more of an of an effort to change than i had expected, but i was in a very different situation to yours, and had to change urgently because of other serious health issues. Hope you post as to how you like your pump trial - i have a feeling you may have already decided to go for one!. Ann [/QUOTE]
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