@Mel dCP hope your incredible control has helped with the retinopathy, keep us posted on how it goes, sending hugs.I’ve just got up, it’s my one day off this week. Feels a bit odd after my 0530 starts! Got to walk the mile to our local hospital and back this afternoon, got the follow up consultation to the retinopathy screening that came back with maculopathy and non proliferative retinopathy. To say I’m bricking it would be a slight understatement. Will try not to fall over on the ice.
Hope you all have a nice not too cold/hot day x
I’ve just got up, it’s my one day off this week. Feels a bit odd after my 0530 starts! Got to walk the mile to our local hospital and back this afternoon, got the follow up consultation to the retinopathy screening that came back with maculopathy and non proliferative retinopathy. To say I’m bricking it would be a slight understatement. Will try not to fall over on the ice.
Hope you all have a nice not too cold/hot day x
I’ve just got up, it’s my one day off this week. Feels a bit odd after my 0530 starts! Got to walk the mile to our local hospital and back this afternoon, got the follow up consultation to the retinopathy screening that came back with maculopathy and non proliferative retinopathy. To say I’m bricking it would be a slight understatement. Will try not to fall over on the ice.
Hope you all have a nice not too cold/hot day x
It’s snowing, not the proper stuff of a real winter yet, just teeny weeny flakes. Sorry @kitedoc.
Time to get some food out for the birds.
None here in my part of South Wales either - a very light dusting on the hilltops, but that’s it.No snow here and doubt we will get any, big shame as we have 2 sleds...getting snow envy now
We had half inch in Pontypool this morning....None here in my part of South Wales either - a very light dusting on the hilltops, but that’s it.
I’ve just got up, it’s my one day off this week. Feels a bit odd after my 0530 starts! Got to walk the mile to our local hospital and back this afternoon, got the follow up consultation to the retinopathy screening that came back with maculopathy and non proliferative retinopathy. To say I’m bricking it would be a slight understatement. Will try not to fall over on the ice.
Hope you all have a nice not too cold/hot day x
I hope it lives up to your expectations. I think I'm going to wait until they perfect the technology for pumps that auto adjust doses myself. I think they'll crack that properly fairly soon.
I am in the same boat!!! I am bricking it lol...T1D for 48 years all I have EVER known is jabbing myself multiple times a day. I will feel like, as @Mel dCP has said, I am missing something or have forgotten to do something. Its a new and challenging chapter in my life and even thou I am bricking it, I am really looking forward to it as well (NO MORE JABS.....WINNER)Hi
@Shellback To be fair I am a bit worried about this, think it ,looks a bit complicated and I am unsure of this stuck on me all day everyday. I tend to be very restless in bed and have visions of it becoming disconnected. then there are the horror stories of people trying to get through airport security with pump attached.
Havig said all that people on here who are pumping seem to think they are excellent and gives them better control, which of course is my ultimate aim.
According to hospital over the years they have given out over 400 and only around half dozen folks have returned them, so I am a little optomistic
The ones that are being prototyped now don't manage food - you still have to count your carbs. But I digress...
I don't mind carb counting during the day. I'm very attracted to the idea of a closed loop system that could up the basal if I start running high when overnight whilst asleep so I'd always wake up in the 5s. I think the only one on the market at the moment though is the Medtronic and it only keeps one at around 6.7. Which I don't find particularly enticing as I normally manually beat that anyway.@smc4761 and @porl69 - I was very like you before I got my pump. I really wasn't sure if I wanted something attached to me all the time and, being an engineer, I was very nervous about relying on a bit of technology to keep me alive.
(I am even more nervous of the type of a closed loop pump system which works out your insulin doses as @Shellback is waiting for. The ones that are being prototyped now don't manage food - you still have to count your carbs. But I digress...)
The thing that made me go for a pump in the end was being told I could give it back - taking the pump is not a one way street.
However, 3 years later and I am still pumping with only 3 (enforced) days off (and I hated those 3 days).
I would not describe my "Pumpy" as "excellent". I would describe him like a petulant teenager - sometimes he is amazing and I would hate to be without him; other times I want to give hime away and never see him again. Over the last 3 years, I think I have got used to his awkwardness and we are friends more than enemies now. But he still won't do the washing up.
The pump is not a miracle - it still requires accurate carb counting (more accurate for me because I can go down to 0.05 units of insulin on the pump) and the wonderful temporary basals and different basal regimes are only good if they are set up right (and I choose the right one). In my area, one of the criteria for a pump is having the willingness and ability to cope with this. So regardless how "bad" your control is, you will not get a pump if you refuse to invest the time and effort into managing your diabetes.
I am sure you will have questions (such as what to do with it at night). There are enough of us here to answer but I won't bombard you with any more information for now.
wow i couldnt cope kitedoc,are them temps normal for this time of year where you are or are yous getting barmy weatherNew forecast for tomorrow is for 45 Degrees C (no degrees F about it). I know the local greengrocer has a large fridge ...........
hope all goes /went well mel xxI’ve just got up, it’s my one day off this week. Feels a bit odd after my 0530 starts! Got to walk the mile to our local hospital and back this afternoon, got the follow up consultation to the retinopathy screening that came back with maculopathy and non proliferative retinopathy. To say I’m bricking it would be a slight understatement. Will try not to fall over on the ice.
Hope you all have a nice not too cold/hot day x
Hi @karen8967, 45 is a bit above the usual but not by much. The real danger is the risk of bushfires. Might be spending the day in a wet blanket !!wow i couldnt cope kitedoc,are them temps normal for this time of year where you are or are yous getting barmy weather
i hate the cold but i also cant take high heat niether ....im very fickleHi @karen8967, 45 is a bit above the usual but not by much. The real danger is the risk of bushfires. Might be spending the day in a wet blanket !!
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