I'm Lovin' it!  What happens when a four-year-old, who almost never gets to visit the golden arches, gets a McHappy Meal?  She doesn't waste even one inch of the meal.

PUMP START, FOR REAL THIS TIME...

We started pumping insulin yesterday at 10:30 am.  It was really overwhelming for me, but Terry was pretty relaxed about it.  We programmed Ali's basal rate (constant insulin release) at CHEO, in our session.  Then when we went to lunch and tried to bolus (additional insulin to cover meals), we got an error saying that our line had an occlusion.  Up we went, back to the Diabetes Clinic to change our infusion set and start all over with the bolus.

We're talking to the Endo every evening, adjusting and re-adjusting Alison's basal rates and boluses so that we can figure out her carb ratios.  Once that is done we'll be sitting pretty for a little while.  Until then, we are checking her blood sugar at breakfast, two hours later, lunch, two hours later, dinner, two hours later, snack time, two hours later, midnight and 3am.  It is going to be a couple of really exhausting weeks (unless Ali's body and the pump sinc up more quickly).

What makes it all worth while is not only the health benefits that Alison will see, but how happy her pump makes her!  She is so proud of it.