It’s been a decade and I can safely say that I am tired of living with “no strings attached.” I am moving pump-ward. However, having punned so well with the “strings” comment, I must admit that the pump I am in hot pursuit of is “wireless”: the omnipod.

“Omnipod”…

It sounds like its own little being… growing like a parasitic appendage from your abdomen…ok, so that was my immediate though, but I’m warming up to the idea (yes, of course I would name it, what around me does not get named and/or personified in some way, shape, or form?)

The only downside I foresee in comparing the omnipod with other pumps is that it can’t be as easily removed to switch between pump and injections… so we shall see -a large part of my heart still belongs to the minimed due to its partner in crime, the continuous glucose sensor (“Mom, Dad, I’m a real boy!” oh if only normal was so simple, Pinocchio).

HbA1C December 2007: 9.5%

HbA1C Summer 2007: 8.1%

So what, you might wonder, caused this dramatic increase in my hemoglobin A1C levels?

It’s quite simple: medical school. it takes no prisoners. none. nothing is spared.

Even though my boy and my doc claim to love me despite my numbers, I’m afraid I do not, so it is onward and forward I move with a new plan of action (pump-dom) and renewed diligence.

note:

[carbohydrate count = 1 unit: 10 carbs]

[current correction = 2 units:50mg/dL]