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Emily & Jane In better control with their pump since 2012 & 2011
Newly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes
On the day I was diagnosed,
I was really quite shocked to be told I got diabetes.
I was glad that it was something specific, that is was a know condition,
but I was really quite shocked that it was diabetes.
I didn't know a lot about diabetes and I didn't really know anybody with diabetes,
so it was a real surprise.
When I was first on injections,
the way injections work, didn't really fit in with the way I run my life.
The way I was injecting I had to eat at particular times,
and have lots of snacks at particular intervals,
and that was quite, sort of just slightly restrictive.
When the pump was first suggested to me,
I was pretty exasperated
with the whole process of trying to manage diabetes.
Trying to get, working very very hard
and not really getting it under control.
So I was actually in a stage
where I though I'd really be happy to try anything,
and if it was a new technology,
I wasn't too worried about it.
I had a few questions about
where do you keep it?
And what do you do when you're asleep, where do put it?
What do you do when you're in the bath or in the shower?
These are all very basic practical questions,
but I just thought there was enough people on them
that I'm sure there're answers.
I was diagnosed six years ago and Emily was diagnosed a year ago.
When Emily was diagnosed, I was in a different place.
I was sort of more under control,
and knew more about diabetes.
So I was less worried about
diabetes and what you do with it.
I was more worried about the implications for your child.
It's a very different feeling from having it yourself,
to when it is your your your big baby, who has got diabetes.
Now that I'm on the pump,
I can do active stuff independently.
I went to scout camp and I
did rafting and did the days hike
and did that all without my mom
and without anyone else.
I controlled it with the pump, and that worked really well.
If I could have my time again,
and I was offered a pump right at the very beginning,
I would start on the pump straight away
and go through the little bit of hard work at the beginning,
to get things working.
Before going through the sort of years of
pain and frustration of working really hard and not really getting any better.
For me if I'd gone on a pump a lot earlier,
I think I would be, have got
to this level of control just years earlier.
If I had my time again,
like I went back to my diagnosis,
I would definitely try getting on the pump earlier.
Because it helped me so much
and I think, I kind of, would have managed ok
but I don't think I would be able to manage where I am right now,
and the control I have now, without the pump.
The pump has enabled me to not just do more activities
and eat more easily,
but it is actually meaning that my HbA1c is improving,
and it's still improving as I learn more
tips and ways to use the pump.
It's a very sophisticated machine that you can use at a basic level,
and the more things you find out about it, the better you control.
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