All pumped up!

It's here! I'm so stoked!!! oh my goodness just look at this beauty! The first touch screen, consumer driven insulin pump on the market! I've only had this since Thursday and I already have seen and feel the difference! I'm understanding things so much better. I though insulin worked for only 2 hours.... I was so very wrong. My insulin works for about 3 hours. So when I check my blood sugar after about 2 hours and I'm already at 70, I can check my pump to see how much more insulin I have that will continue to work. So I can determine if I need something or if I need to just leave it alone. It's amazing!

So you can see the tubing that comes out of it in the above picture. It connects to a device on my stomach or wherever I place it. The insulin stays in the tube and the pump delivers micro doses every hour as a basal rate so that my blood sugars stay under control. So here's the device:

I cannot for the life of me get this to stand up.... It's right in the file that I saved, but whatever... anyway so the little triangle device is the cannula that sits there for 3 days. Then there is the tubing that reaches about 18". Which is perfect. Not too long and not too short... anyway It took me about 30 minutes the first time to put that in. The device just seemed so unnecessarily aggressive. They had me practice on a pillow first and it would snap, and snap so loudly I thought that if I had tried it on myself that I would bleed and never stop. So It took me about 30 minutes to convince myself to do it to myself. Then when I finally got the courage, it just didn't go. I tried and tried and tried until "POP"! It snapped and it was in. I felt so embarrassed  The dietitian and the representative were sitting there coaching me on and stroking me to try to calm me down. And then when it went in... it didn't even hurt and it was over! Oh how embarrassing! A grown woman that has been sticking herself with needles for the last 9 months can't get over her needle phobia to do something that didn't  even hurt! Oh well... it's all in and I survived my first change and my blood sugars are so much better controlled. Anyway YAY! this is gonna be so awesome!