It's B hard work until you get it 'tuned' to yourself though, aren't they Hobie? - they don't make anything 'simpler' - however they do assist you to keep your BG stable at better levels for longer periods and therefore help us to iron out the hills and dales of our own BG (which will still occur unless we keep a close eye on it ALL the time) and thus hopefully also assist us to avoid complications arising.
You can't just plug them in and then they do everything for us - far from it! - so don't ever think one can do that for you. They are just bits of technology and we all need patience and dedication to make them help us.
When you know your body and how it works inside out, you can often second guess it - but then it will change again caused by the weather, stress, what we did activity wise the day before yesterday or something else - a passing germ that settled on you for instance.
Diabetes always likes to keep one step ahead of all of us - and that won't change. But - if you can fool it into thinking it is winning by using little tips and tricks we all have to pick up in time - we can all learn to live with it in harmony.
Let's actually be blunt here - they are expensive for starters (about £3,000) but then also cost at least £100 a month in consumables - cannulas (have to be changed every 2 or 3 days) tubing (every 6 days) and cartridges or reservoirs (again max 6 days unless they need changing before that) so CCGs won't normally fund them for us unless we can demonstrate that MDI isn't working well for us in respect of some aspect which the NHS considers important. So, we have to demonstrate that it isn't by trying whatever is suggested (I mean sensible suggestions like altering timing of jabs or splitting them and having more than 4 or 5 a day, trying different insulins with different peaks and troughs (they all have them to greater or less degrees) if the one we use isn't suiting our lifestyle - or even in some cases changing aspects of our lifestyle. We all blench at the latter but actually some changes aren't that hard to make - take more or less (LOL) exercise. Eat more or less. Take your night-time basal insulin at a different time. Eat less/more carbs - or whatever.
They don't ask anyone to stop being eg a footballer if that's someone's job or say they have to eat nuts if they hate the things. Be far easier for you getting to grips with your diabetes if your children weren't disabled I'm sure - but they know you couldn't and wouldn't change that and they also have to appreciate what hard work that is alone and that they need to help you as far as they're able.
I mean - nursie I'm certain is correct - but there would have been far better ways of explaining that it's simply far too early days for anyone - including you! - to assess whether a pump COULD help you or not, since it depends on so many things that no-one can possibly know. Well know, they don't know, YET. That's true.
But who knows, in time? Again - nobody! But onwards and upwards is where your learning curve is pointing - so you just have to follow it!
Have you read a book called Type 1 diabetes in babies children and young adults by Ragnar Hanas? Ignore the title if none of it fits, but read the words, because it's a good source of explanation for a Type 1 of any age who needs to learn ways and tips on what to do and how to do it, whatever age we might happen to be!
Please make time for yourself Mummy - cos you know - you really are a very important person!
