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One of the less charming aspects of pumping is fine tuning basal rates.

Basically, you have to stop bolusing — and eating — and check your blood sugar every hour. I started last night at 8:00 — so the test officially started at 10:00. So far, I’ve managed to make most of the testing times — at night they do let you go every other hour.

Actually my pump trainer has guessed pretty good. Right now, the rates are running good. I think the problem occurs in a few hours from now — around 8:00 am. I’m not sure if I can make it that long without food, but I”m going to try.

I cannot believe how much better I feel already.

Everyone at school has been commented on how much better my color is. But the best part, is that I have energy to do my work.

I LOVE MY PUMP!

Today was wonderful, I felt good all day, except for a brief carb overload at lunch — I’m going to try delaying fruit by a half hour first, to see if that fixes it.

We’re tweaking the sucker now. Doing my first basal test.

I LOVE MY PUMP!

In honor of my father, who named his airplane Wilbur, and also his oxygenerater, I’ve named my pump Orville and the Palm Pilot Wilbur.

It was funny, because I didn’t think anyone would get Orville at all. But I didn’t want to name it Wilbur … funny that way. But then again, I use the Palm Pilot almost as much as Orville now, so Wilbur is perfect.

A lot of people still won’t get it but then they won’t matter

My pump trainer has been super. I need to compliment both Animas and her for her hard work.

She had originally contacted me back the day the shipped the pump, Friday 15th. She had scheduled me 2:30, which was a bit of an issue, but set me up with another trainer to show me the pump on Tuesday, who could do it at 4:00.

That worked out beautifully. I had time to get home and relax for a few minutes before we trained. That trainer did a super job making me feel comfortable.

However, the main trainer is the person who has been on the phone, and setting things up. We’ve got a pretty good routine started — I send my daily logs to both her and my doctor every day. Got to love technology, though it’s frustrating. I don’t know why some days Acrobat will give us the graphs and some days it won’t.

But just wanted to thank her and Animas for making this a pleasant experience.

I just lived through my first site change. It wasn’t too bad. This is the part I dreaded the most.

Don’t have to worry about not changing my sites often enough. I woke up itching.

I still love my pump, and I still love the Palm pilot software that comes with it.

We have some tweaking to do yet, but I’m already seeing quite an improvement. Didn’t crash at the gym yesterday and even did my favorite — elliptical trainer.

It’s been 24 hours now, on the pump and things are going super. I’m still worried about changing the infusion site, but I think that will be fine.

And man it is nice to eat breakfast and dinner without injecting!