It's official, we love the demo OmniPod and it doesn't even deliver her insulin yet. Reasons why we love it:
1 - The mere idea that we won't be sticking her 3 times a day with an insulin filled syringe if we are approved to start using it.
2 - It withstood every test we could think of - showers, swimming, dancing, sleeping, doodling on it, and other daily abuses. The tape peeled up slightly around the edges, but it never was yanked off when she would rip her clothes off without caution.
3 - Finally, and most importantly, she would forget that she had it on. This was a big one for me because if she complained even once about "feeling it," or it "bothering her," I was going to throw in the towel and not think about a pump again. She would hit it on the wall, roll on it, catch her clothes on it, and say, "Oh yeah, I keep forgetting about the pod!"
She went through several nicknames, but the one we doodled on it in the picture below is her official name for it: "iPanc." We are keeping "fingers crossed" that our endo approves of us trying it out and taking the pump courses that the hospital requires before beginning pump therapy. I'll keep you posted!
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