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I’ve had the IR1250 now for a week. My blood sugars are a lot more stable — which is especially nice as I have had quite a few things come up this week that DO effect blood sugar.

For example, I had a meeting that delivered some very stressful news. I ended up with a temp basal of 10% part of the day, that wasn’t working so I went to a 20% basal.

Things I like about the pump — being able to upload and download data from it. I’ve been messing with the settings this week, and it’s a lot easier.

Cartridge size is working for me. Oh, and debubbling the cartridge is going very well too. I do believe I had bubbles every cartridge change with the old pump.

If you have an IR1000, you definately want to go to the IR1250.

I went to the Diabetes Expo today and got to meet my pump trainer. Also got to tell a few people how thrilled I was with Animas and their products.

It was very nice to finally put a face to the voice on the end of the phone line.

I’ve set up a seperate blog for the Monte Carlo trip — it’s at http://www.kweaver.org/monte_carlo

I’ve already posted stuff on getting ready on it. Especially things dealing with medical issues.

I wore a dress that has been hanging in my closet unworn for over 3 years.

It’s probably a girl thing, but it’s a dress that makes me feel taller and skinner in, but it’s just been too small.

This morning I got up, and started obsessing over the scale (weight). Last time I got on the scale, I’d gained back over 5 pounds, so I just didn’t want to deal with it. But I couldn’t get passed the obsession.

Good news, I was at the lowest weight I’ve been in about 3 years. SO, I tried on the dress. It fits, and it wasn’t wearing me — one of my best friends from school (who recently got promoted), used to use that description.

I haven’t had the new pump long enough for it to make THAT much difference, but today again my blood sugar levels were better — fasting was in the 90’s. And I am getting a bit more confident on the data entry.

It is really smoothing out my blood sugar.

On shots, my blood sugar was like this:

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On the IR1000 it was more like this:

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So far on the IR1250 it is more like this:

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