Ping is here! Aaaaah!

So, my pump came yesterday and oh my God!  I didn’t expect so much literature and stuff with it.  I mean, I knew I’d have a lot to learn about it and that I wouldn’t be set up on it that night or anything but I guess I just didn’t expect this much.  Now I’m feeling kind of daunted.  I started to go through the workbook that came with and made it to where I can’t go any further until I meet with the educators and/or actually get started on the pump.  So far so good but most of the stuff to this point I either already knew or seemed to be very basic pump knowledge.

I go on New Year’s Eve to the local hospital’s diabetes institute for some training and to get my starting basal rates and bolus equations but that’s the only meeting I’ll have with them.  My insurance (which I was pleasantly surprised with during the purchase of the pump) will only cover one diabetes education visit during my lifetime.  Nice.  But from what they told me today there will be an Animas rep or whatever that will meet with me for me to actually start the pump.  I thought they did that through the institute.

So, I won’t be on it until sometime in the new year but it’s here and I’m excited and scared.  I understand the concepts behind the ratios and the doses and everything but it still feels like there’s so much that will be confusing.  And while this will help me to not need to be so disciplined in certain areas I will need to be more disciplined in others…I haven’t always been so good in the discipline department.  *sigh*  Getting rid of the injections will definitely make me much more inclined to “take” my insulin every time I eat like I should…I slack some now.  But I’ll have to become more diligent with checking my BS and keeping records.  I oddly like keeping records…for a very short time and then I get bored with it.

Anyway.  It’s here.  I’ll get it figured out.  But I get the feeling it’s going to be a long few months until I really get it all and am well regulated on it…maybe longer.

For what it’s worth, somebody at Animas needs to learn the definition of a “booklet.”  The “Owner’s Booklet” is more like an “Owner’s Textbook.”