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Pump Approval - It's official

ElyDave

ElyDave

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Ely, Cambs
Type of diabetes
Type 1
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just got the news that the clinical team at addenbrookes have approved my pump referral. :D

Now over to the PCT
 
Woohoo! Clinic has agreed mine and are confident I'll get funding when it goes to the board.

Any indication of when you'll start?


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That is great news, keep us updated :)
 
Thanks guys,

no tiemline yet, but I've been told it could easily take three months, which would put it smack in the middle of training for my 40-miler.
 
ElyDave said:
Thanks guys,

no tiemline yet, but I've been told it could easily take three months, which would put it smack in the middle of training for my 40-miler.
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Not ideal! But I guess you take what you can get.

Endo gave me an estimated start date of the end of the year. I'll take that!


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Good stuff!!
My application was meant to be at the board for approval 3 weeks ago but haven't heard anything from them yet.
Always good to hear that people are managing to get the treatment that they want.
 
How exciting!

Sometimes I wonder if I just got really lucky with mine, I went to an appointment with the intention of mentioning a pump but I got asked if I would consider one before I could bring it up myself, it was the registrar so he popped out, spoke to consultant then came back in and said he agreed so they put my name down. I didn't hear anything for a couple of months but turns out that was an error so when I went back they asked why I hadn't started then organised a dietician appointment and a pump start appointment for about 2 weeks later and I was off! Though I didn't get a choice of pump at that hospital when I moved and came back home they just continued and when it was up for a new one they let me choose whichever I wanted. I am so grateful for my pump, can't imagine going back to being without it now!
 
Got my timeline through in the post today
8/Aug - Pump intro and selection (the week after my 40 miler, luckily)
9/Sep or 14/Oct - saline start
16/Sep or 21/Oct - Insulin start

Need to try and fit all of those dates around work that is already pre-planned that far ahead, but it's a nice dilemma to have.
 
aaaaarrrrgh!

2 weeks, 2 weeks, 2 weeks.

Spoke to the pump admin person today about timings (which were all inconvenient to me) adn I now have a pump selection day in just under two weeks on 6th May.

Choice of 5 pumps
- Medtronic Veo
- Omnipod
- New Roche one, anyone know what that is?
- Animas - not sure which model
- cellnovo should just be available to me

Off to do a bit of reasearch now.
 
ElyDave said:
Choice of 5 pumps
- Medtronic Veo
- Omnipod
- New Roche one, anyone know what that is?
- Animas - not sure which model
- cellnovo should just be available to me

Off to do a bit of reasearch now.
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5! Awesome! We had choice of 3.

Would the Roche be the Accu Chek Combo? Depends what they mean by "new" exactly.

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