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She said she wanted me to get started. She
asked me what insulin pump I wanted to go on. I told her I
thought Disetronic was the one that I wanted and gave her my
reasons. She told me about her other patients that were
using Minimed which were like 130 and none of them had problems
with Minimed pumps. She only had 3 that were using
Disetronic's pump. I guess that changed my mind after
hearing that, so I decided to give Minimed my business.
My Endo ordered me my pump the same day. It
was shipped to me along with a 6 month supply of infusion sets, reservoirs
and a few other things. I received my pump on November
12th. It came shipped by Fed-Ex which I was surprised.
Minimed had called me the following Friday and asked me what color
of pump I wanted. I had a choice to make which was cool in a
way. I guess the default color is black so I ordered the
blue one like the one pictured above.
I spent that day reading all the manuals and stuff
that came with it which were very good reading. I learned
quite a bit. Then watched the video on how to program and
operate the pump.
I have an appointment this Thursday (November
15th) to start training with the pump. This will involve
learning to load the pump with insulin (training will only involve
using a saline solution) inserting the infusion set then I'll
spend a few days practicing infusing myself with the bolus and
then I have a day which I'll change the infusion set myself.
Then next week, I get placed on the insulin. I'm counting
down the minutes now! I'm very excited!
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