Things about me you might not know...

 Well I guess since everyone else admitted to reading Shamaes post I will too...

Things about me you might not know...

• I'm a  huge pack rat, my husband thinks I need therapy! But I like to hold on to stuff, you never know when you might need it! For example: I held on to every baby thing for 5 years, after 2 years of not getting pregnant again my hubby MADE me get rid of it all! Now I'm 7 months pregnant and have to buy EVERYTHING all over again!

At least I keep it all organized right???

• I'm a basket case! Not in the way you might be thinking but I LOVE baskets!!! I have baskets for everything!

Baskets for shoes...

Baskets for measuring cups...

Baskets for crafts...

Baskets for gum...

Many Many Baskets for Toys! One baskets per group of toys (Hot Wheels, Cars, Legos, Army, Dollhouse, Barbie’s, Ponies, Dress-up, I could go on and on!) I have a total of 4 of these shelves, each hold about 8 or 9 baskets...

• I buy almost everything in bulk, even if it's a years supply, but only if it's on sale...

Tissues, toilet paper, paper towels, napkins, diapers and wipes (for a baby that's not even born yet)...

Propel aka: "Grape Water"...

Over 300 flossers...

6 shaving creams, 8 deodorants, 8 new razors/refills, all still left from my last shopping trip back in November...

• I have a tiny bit of OCD, but only about certain things. A pile of mail can sit on the counter for weeks and I could care less but I like everything else done a certain way...

I like the dishwasher organized by size and color...

I like all the books on the shelf organized by size (very hard to keep done with kids)...

 Man I could go on and on...but the kids are in the bath and I hear a TON of splashing so I'd better go mop up the floor!
I may post a part 2 but being that I Procrastinate on everything I wouldn’t hold your breath!

3 month Endo appt and PUMP CLASS!!!

Endo Appt... I guess I'll start with the Endo appt because it just happened to be first up today...

This was only our 3rd appt and it was the first one that I didn't worry myself sick over the A1c. I knew the last A1c of 6.8 would be history and I was truly ok with that. August- October was so easy...too easy! November-January have been much much harder, I knew I tried my best but the D Monster put up a darn good fight, no matter how much I adjusted she had random highs everyday and random lows once or twice a week, there was never a pattern! I was actually a bit surprised that it was 7.5 (her current 30day average on the meter was 219...yikes!). Her Dr was pretty happy with that, he agrees that she's definitely coming out of her honeymoon period and expected the rise in her A1c because of that. He looked over our log book and couldn't find a pattern for her crazy highs either and didn't want to make any changes. He did offer up a few suggestions for us to try out on our little guinea pig to see if we could fix the problem. Well give them a try, hopefully it won't lead to lows!

If you've been reading my blog for awhile you'd know that we were all getting pretty concerned about her weight, at dx in May she was 27 pounds just 4 months later in September she was 40 pounds and only a month later at our last appt she was up to 45 pounds!!! I was so excited today when he told us she was 46 pounds, she's still off the chart for weigh but at least the gaining is slowing down!

And best of all he went ahead and gave us the green light for the PUMP!!!

PUMP CLASS!!!!!...
Can you tell I'm excited about this part????
As much as I liked meeting the reps during the in home hands on demos, I really felt like they were just trying to sell their product, mostly because they were!!!

It was SO nice to have an impartial person going over each and every pro and con for each of the pumps. In the end we just had to pick, there wasn't "the perfect" pump (someone needs to make it!!!!).

I wanted the good remote,
I wanted the linked CGM,
I wanted the tubeless feature...but which one did I want more???
I wanted the Ping, yes it has tubing, no I can't have a linked CGM, yes it will take a few more steps to deliver insulin, but it is waterproof, it can deliver the smallest amount of insulin which Alivia will need, it has the good remote, I can give insulin directly from the pump if needed, it keeps track of IOB and most importantly it comes in pink! We meet with the rep tomorrow to start the paperwork!!!
Honestly though if Medtronic had the good remote (they currently only have a tiny one with 3 buttons, no screen) I would of gone with them. With an active 3 year old I felt like we needed the remote, at least until she does it on her own.

If everything goes well with the insurance we should be pumping in a month!!!

Picking a Pump...

Well 1 week from today is our pump class! They will quiz us on insulin adjustment among other thing and if we pass (I think I'll let the Hubby copy off my paper) we'll get to choose our pump!!! The only problem is that I'm so torn in which one I want. My 3 choices; OmniPod, One Touch Ping and MiniMed Paradigm.
OmniPod got the boot, apparently it doesn't keep track of insulin on board other than correction. in my 1st thoughts I didn't care about that because I couldn't keep track of it with shots anyways so it didn't really matter, but the more I thought about it, it hit me that why even bother switching to the pump if I'm not going to let technology help me gain better control of her numbers (we have enough lows with out over dosing her with insulin)! So I figured for now I'll skip on the awesome tube-less feature to keep my daughter safer, maybe when she can actually tell me she feels low we'll revisit the OmniPod.
So with that I'm only left with the One Touch Ping and MiniMed Paradigm...I can't choose!!! I LOVED the MiniMed one but only because it had the pump, CGM and test meter that were linked together. The only thing I didn't like was that it didn't have a good remote and we'd need to actually have her pump in our hands to do what we needed to do. Most of you guys with young children know getting a 3 year old to stand still while you fiddle around with the pump imputing number and what not is next to impossible!
I haven't actually gotten to see the Ping one yet, the company has yet to call me back after my 3 e-mails about setting up a hands on demo. I've heard tons of good things about it! Those of you that have it, is there anything about it that you don't like or wish you could change? And does it come with good support? The MiniMed one came with a nurse for the first few weeks, you e-mailed over your numbers everyday and they'd help you make changes and once everything was good they'd turn you back over to your endo office, I really liked knowing I wasn't just turned loose with it.


I know there has been a ton of talk about pumps lately but if you're not too burned out on it please, please leave me a comment with any info you think I'll need to make this choice! Thanks!!!