{"id":2193,"date":"2013-09-06T10:11:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T10:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2013-11-02T22:14:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T22:14:08","slug":"first-hba1c-since-pump-the-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/06\/first-hba1c-since-pump-the-result\/","title":{"rendered":"First HbA1c since pump&#8230;the result"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignright entry-meta\" style=\"padding-top: 5px; width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/usa.healthcare.siemens.com\/point-of-care\/diabetes\/dca-vantage-analyzer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"hba1c machine\" src=\"http:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hba1c-machine-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"hba1c machine\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>An HbA1c checking machine<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>The waiting is (almost) over<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s time, time for Amy&#8217;s first proper clinic appointment since going on an insulin pump, the one where they&#8217;ll check her HbA1c.<br \/>\n<a title=\"First HbA1c on pump\u2026anxiously waiting\" href=\"http:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/05\/first-hba1c-on-pump-anxiously-waiting\/\" target=\"_blank\">I blogged yesterday about being anxious about this test<\/a>, even though we all know it&#8217;s a flawed test right? \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nToday I don&#8217;t feel anxious at all, just excited as I&#8217;m more positive about what the pump&#8217;s done for Amy and some of the work we&#8217;ve put in.<br \/>\nWhatever the result I&#8217;m annoyed with myself a little as I know we could have worked harder at this but that&#8217;s easy to say now we&#8217;re 3 months in to using a pump; I wouldn&#8217;t have said it at the start (even though we&#8217;ve had few problems).<\/p>\n<h3>In Diasend Heaven<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been uploading Amy&#8217;s pump\/meter data on to Diasend regularly and have sent the login details to the clinic but will they have looked at our data? I very much doubt it.<br \/>\nAmy is the first child at our hospital on an Animas pump &#8211; our choice &#8211; and so the use of Diasend is new for our clinic. It&#8217;s okay though, I don&#8217;t mind, I&#8217;m happy to show them how it all works.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve printed off the key reports and I hope the nurses and Doctors will be impressed about how easy they are to understand, certainly less complicated than I remember our old Accu-chek reports being.<\/p>\n<h3>It&#8217;s clinic time&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>Here we go, it&#8217;s time to go in&#8230;wish us luck.<\/p>\n<h3>The result<\/h3>\n<p>7.4<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s a drop of 0.8 since the last one&#8230; and we&#8217;ve not even really been trying.*<br \/>\nGet in.<\/p>\n<p>* following some idiotic criticism when I&#8217;ve said this elsewhere I feel I should qualify the statement: in the first 3 months we&#8217;ve let Amy enjoy the pump and its benefits, such as bolusing for snacks, which in turn means she&#8217;s had lots of snacks, something she hadn&#8217;t done for 2.5 years. We&#8217;ve not been using combo\/wave bolus, nor looking into super-bolusing etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An HbA1c checking machine The waiting is (almost) over It&#8217;s time, time for Amy&#8217;s first proper clinic appointment since going on an insulin pump, the one where they&#8217;ll check her HbA1c. I blogged yesterday about being anxious about this test, even though we all know it&#8217;s a flawed test right? \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/06\/first-hba1c-since-pump-the-result\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/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":[8],"tags":[27,91],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hba1c","tag-clinic","tag-insulin-pump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","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=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383,"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions\/2383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}