{"id":1076,"date":"2013-04-04T12:47:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T12:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2013-11-21T23:23:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T23:23:16","slug":"getting-pump-amys-epiphany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/2013\/04\/04\/getting-pump-amys-epiphany\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting an insulin pump – Amy’s epiphany"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Animas<\/a>Animas’s pumps come in many colours<\/div>\n

At Amy’s last diabetes clinic appointment (15th March 2013) she went from never wanting a pump to wanting one immediately.
\nHere’s what changed her mind.<\/p>\n

Seeing the pump – mind changer #1<\/h3>\n

Amy had never seen a pump, neither had we. No-one we’d met was on a pump, all the kids in her school with type 1 diabetes were on MDI (multiple daily injections) as were all the kids we’d met through the hospital.
\nThe pump was so small, so much smaller than we’d thought, but the best part was that the one we were shown was the Accu-chek Combo which uses the same meter (Accu-chek Aviva Expert) that Amy already uses.
\nI saw the change in Amy’s expression as the questions started to build in her mind.
\n“So how do you tell it how much insulin to give?”
\nThe DSN explained that the meter calculates the amount of insulin to give.
\nYeah, yeah, we know that, we’ve been using it for a while.
\n“But how does the pump know?” Amy asked.
\nThe DSN explained that after confirming the dose the meter tells the pump via a Bluetooth signal and nothing on the pump needs to be touched.
\n“Wow” said Amy.
\n“Bluetooth?” I beamed – once a geek always a geek.<\/p>\n

Seeing the cannula – mind changer #2<\/h3>\n

The DSN asked Amy if she’d like to see the cannula, which luckily was a plastic one. She did, she was amazed, it was small, it was flexible, it was thin.
\n“You can touch the cannula if you like Amy” said the DSN.
\nShe did. She didn’t faint. She smiled.
\n“Wow it’s flexible and so small”.
\nThen the questions started to flow and I knew she was won over to the idea of a pump. This for me was a small victory as now she’s seen a pump and knows about MDI she can make up her own mind whether she’d like to try and get one.<\/p>\n

Happiness shared with the #DOC<\/h3>\n

After coming back from clinic I felt elated: Amy hadn’t fainted, she’d learned stuff about pumps and we could now start discussing the pro’s and con’s about pumps and MDI.
\nI couldn’t help but tweet about it:
\n\"Amy's
\nOther parents of children with type 1 diabetes offered congratulations:
\n\"congratulations<\/p>\n

The quote which really helped – mind changer #3<\/h3>\n

I spent the next 30 minutes on Twitter chatting with other parents and type 1 adults who were already using an insulin pump.
\nHere’s one conversation between a pump user and a parent I had:\"Quote
\nAmy was near me so I read out the quote about the infusion set to her and carried on tweeting – okay, I’m addicted, I know \ud83d\ude42
\nIt was 5:44pm.<\/p>\n

50 minutes of brain whirring later<\/h3>\n

Amy went off, did some stuff, walked back into the room fifty minutes later and stunned me with something she said, which of course I told the #DOC straight away:
\n\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[27,91],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insulin-pump","tag-clinic","tag-insulin-pump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2526,"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/2526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}