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Joslin Weblog Project: Moving Forward... One Desire It All.

I can't believe that this is the concluding calendar week for the our bodies GPS system, mapping out where our blood saccharide is currently in addition to where it needs to go. And all inwards nether five seconds.  Come to intend of it, then create CGMs - to a greater extent than on that later. 

I shout out back when glucose meters get-go came out they took three minutes in addition to were the size of a VHS tape. Now a days I tin hold out out amongst friends in addition to nobody volition fifty-fifty realize I’m checking my blood sugar. 
I shout out back the days earlier at that spot were glucose meters. I shout out back testing my urine in addition to burning my picayune fingers on the fizzy, urine filled test-tube. Not solely was it disgusting, it was damn inaccurate. I get upwardly to that fourth dimension inwards my life equally The Diabetes Dark Ages - And I never desire to larn dorsum at that spot again. 

Going on the insulin pump was a huge game changer inwards my life amongst diabetes. 
I was inwards skilful command earlier I went on the insulin pump. Seriously, my a1c was inwards the 6‘s, but I was injecting for every fifteen grams of carbs I consumed, sometimes half dozen times a 24-hour interval only for meals in addition to or corrections, summation the nightly lantus injection inwards my arm.
I was literally in addition to figuratively running out of real-estate when it came to injection sites. My tum looked a Patone Color Chart that was permanently flipping betwixt the purple/bluish in addition to the greens in addition to yellows. NOT SO PRETTY. 
At the fourth dimension I was working out a lot in addition to was truly having a occupation amongst depression blood sugars most daily.
MY older sis had tried for years to larn me on the pump, but her delivery was less than pleasant in addition to I refused. 
Finally, medico J (my awesome Endo) told me that he truly wanted me to endeavour the pump because my tum needed a hazard to rest. And if I didn’t similar the pump, I could larn off it inwards a yr in addition to that he wouldn’t hold out mad at me if I chose to larn dorsum to shots. 
That was 10 years agone in addition to I’ve never looked back. 
IP therapy is to a greater extent than work, but it’s given me then much to a greater extent than liberty in addition to I dear it. 
The insulin pump has allowed me to pick out when I desire to eat,a meal,  non when I convey to eat a meal. 
Being tethered tin larn annoying, particularly equally far equally doorknobs are concerned, but I’ll never larn dorsum to shots!

I vesture my electronic pancreas clipped to my hip in addition to around my heart.

CGM: I don't currently vesture a continuous glucose monitor, yet, but I'm working on it!
My insurance society is real CGM friendly & it's a on going battle I'm inwards amongst them. 
But it's my promise to convey i inwards the real close future. Actually it's my promise for everyone to convey CGM inwards their future, because beingness able to rail your blood saccharide in addition to truly encounter what direction it's going (arrows upwardly verses arrows down)not solely helps to forbid unsafe lows in addition to highs, it gives the mortal wearing the CGM (and their household unit of measurement members) peace of mind.


BUT I WANT MORE from these hold out saving devices. 
I desire my diabetes engineering scientific discipline to hold out spot on. The whole meters beingness 10 to 20% of the grade has got stop. If my automobile was 10% to 20% inaccurate It would barely drive. If my (or anyones for that matter) oral meds were 10 to 20% inaccurate there’s a skilful hazard I’d hold out dead. 

I desire all my diabetes devices to verbalise amongst i some other in addition to operate together - seamlessly.
I would dear for my pump to halt insulin delivery when my cgm ( don’t convey on yet) tells it that my blood saccharide is low. 
I would dear for my insulin pump to allow me know when I’ve hitting a “dead spot” that isn’t absorbing insulin, instead of having to honour that out on my ain - Usually three or iv hours after I’ve seat inwards a novel infusion site in addition to am blowing a 340 blood sugar. 

And I desire insulin pumps to hold out smaller, thinner, sleeker in addition to sans tubing -  And I desire the latest in addition to greatest inwards pump engineering scientific discipline - Like they convey inwards Europe. 

In club for all of the higher upwardly to happen, the FDA needs to movement faster when it comes to approbation diabetes engineering scientific discipline because our lives literally depend on it!
I desire insurance companies to larn a clue when it comes to diabetes engineering scientific discipline in addition to non hold out stuck five years behind the times. 
What skilful is approbation a CGM (continuous glucose monitoring system) when the same insurance society that approved the CGM refuses to approve the sensors for said CGM. CGMs are cypher without the sensors! KNOW HOW THE ACTUALLY PRODUCTS WORK.
Speaking of glucose, I don’t desire to convey to continually fence equally to why I take away a for sure discover of exam strips a calendar month inwards club to keep my skilful health. 
I don’t desire to fence over what brands of insulin my insurance encompass verses what construct of insulin I truly prefer to use. 
Quite frankly, I’d prefer to role Kelly Kunik insulin, but that’s non going to give because I no longer convey the mightiness to construct insulin. But I digress. 
If I’ve been using an insulin pump for 10 years, why create I convey to boundary through hoops to larn a novel one? 

Bottom Line: Diabetes handling relies heavily on technology.  And equally people amongst living amongst diabetes nosotros rely on engineering scientific discipline to travel on us healthy, to keep a skilful character of life - And to travel on us alive. 
We non solely take away the best inwards diabetes technology, WE DESERVE IT- AND WE HAVE TO FIGHT FOR information technology - UNTIL WE FIND THE CURE FOR DIABETES.

What diabetes technologies convey changed your lives for the meliorate - And how would you lot improve them inwards the future? 

***This is the concluding calendar week of the Joslin Blog Project - Please help Joslin's High Hopes Fund. 
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