Animas Vibe insulin pumps Rung six (or is it seven) – a date with a pump Today, sat at work, just recovering from my 12 mile cycle to work I got a call from a number I didn’t recognise. I didn’t answer it immediately but then saw it was a …
Dr Iain Cranston let’s us know about future improvements Many months ago Dr Kar from Portsmouth’s QA hospital tweeted a question to the diabetes online community to see if there was any interest in an idea he (or his team) had: would people like the opportunity to meet with healthcare …
Animas Vibe pumps Rung five – official pump demo – Animas Vibe Yesterday we had a 4pm meeting with our local Animas representative Emma at our the hospital. It was Emma’s first meeting with the Paediatrics Diabetes Team at Winchester and that meeting had happened earlier yesterday, which is why …
Animas Vibe pumps Rung five – (un)official pump demo – Animas Vibe We went to yesterday’s JDRF Discovery Day in Bristol not just to listen to their talks but also to meet up with lots of people from the online Twitter community for diabetes, affectionately know as the #DOC. One …
Roche Accu-chek Combo pump and meter Rung five – first official pump demo – Roche Accu-chek Combo After our carbohydrate counting training refresher yesterday morning we stayed at the hospital for lunch as we were due to have a demo. It was all a bit of a rush as we …
The NHS Eatwell plate. (not for each meal you understand) Rung four – carbohydrate counting This morning Amy and I attended a carbohydrate counting training refresher course at our local hospital in Winchester. We’d already attended a similar session back in September 2011, just after we returned from India, when …
There’s many rungs on the ladder towards the pump Climbing each rung I’ve viewed the progression to Amy getting a pump as a ladder, one that we appear to be well and truly on. For the record I don’t really like climbing ladders but I’ll make an exception for this …
Paul Weller’s Heavy Soul album, not quite Stanley Road but excellent too “I should have been there to inspire you” I was playing a Paul Weller’s Heavy Soul album in the evening after Amy’s clinic in December 2012, the one where she fainted. My favourite tune from that album came …
A Medtronic Paradigm Veo wearer with pump and CGM At Amy’s quarterly clinic on the 15th March 2013 she saw her first pump, within 28 hours she was on the waiting list. But let’s go back a stage or two first. On a high Amy’s decision that she wanted a …
Animas’s pumps come in many colours At Amy’s last diabetes clinic appointment (15th March 2013) she went from never wanting a pump to wanting one immediately. Here’s what changed her mind. Seeing the pump – mind changer #1 Amy had never seen a pump, neither had we. No-one we’d met …
Accu-chek’s Combo pump and meter Pumps: are they any good? Having been a member of the Twitter diabetes online community (#DOC) for several months now I’ve learned one key thing about pumps: they’re pretty good. Quotes like “the pump gave me my life back” are commonplace and it’s a rare …