We got Elizabeth hooked up to her new pump tonight. Her original pump malfunctioned over the weekend. I called Animas (the manufacturer) and talked to a tech who said it would be safest to take her off of the pump until the replacement could get here.
What a roller coaster weekend we had with that! I had forgotten how to do a lot of the calculations on my own (we rely on the pump!). I had forgotten that when you're out and about, any time you need to give insulin, you have to stop the car and your travels, lol. We had forgotten a lot of things while realizes how much we'd grown to depend on her insulin pump. And how much we've taken her pump for granted.
We saw her endocrinologist on Monday and her a1c is down from last fall. October of 2010 her a1c was 8.1. January 31st, 2011 it was 8.4 (her blood sugar had been really high due to a huge growth spurt and hormones and we were having a hard time keeping up with all of that). But Monday, March 7th (just 6 weeks after her last a1c) it was down to 7.8!!! :-)
She was so excited to get home and get back on her pump. I feel much more comfortable with her on it too. Much easier to control her numbers (if you can do such a thing) and also a lot easier to know exactly what's going on with her body. Her pump and me, together we make a darn good pancreas! ;-)
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