Hi Debs
Bigger fools the ones who didn't turn up for there pumps but perhaps thye had a good reason, my first training day I almost didn't make it to the hospital (I have to travel 17 miles two towns away) and for the fist time since owning my car (5 years) it decided on that morning to break down (alternator packed up) To say I was in tears was an understatment I had faught for amost 3 years to get to that day :evil: :evil: 2 buses later I arrived at the hospital 3/4 hours late.. One of the other chaps had driven up the motorway and offered me a lift home and to pick me up the next day... And boy did he have a very lush Merc indeed :mrgreen:
I can remember my first days as a diabetic, as I was 24 at the time, I was lucky as the nurse who helped me with my first injection was herself a diabetic, so we did our together, I was alright filling the syringe but when she said, go on do your injection (after she had done hers) I just looked at her and uttered 'I'm no b nurse' :lol:
As to starting my pump, pretty similar feeling of being out of my depth, but this time I did have an head start as it was only the pumping I had to get my head around, and not the 'now I'm a diabetic side' so it's was easier.... I never missed doing jabs for food nor my morning background, I only looked for my PM jab :?
Be prewarned, you may find yourself a bit tearful after the first week or so... But starting the pump can be an emotional time.. OH found me sobbing my heart out after about 9 days of pumping, but it was tears of joy more than anything, for the first time for a long time, I felt ordinary normal and none diabetic, I hadn't had a hypo for 9 days, and when you suffered around 2-3 a day they take there toll on your energy levels, I could now adjust my insulin to suit my needs, if I only needed 0.6 units, I could have it rather than the obligatory 1 unit, that generally sent me into a hypo I had my life back and my future... The notion took a little getting used to..
And another month it will have been 2 years since I started and I've never looked back, the longer you use it the more you find out about yourself and your diabetes and how to best use your pump to your advantage