Well, I love my endo and my CDE, but guess what? When it came to the pump, they both knew I could figure it out. I had been diabetic twice as long as my CDE so I got an extremely short run-through for my pump setup session.
We breezed through the list and checked things off. I put on my set for the first time, she left and there I was, a pumper. Well, the human brain isn't designed to absorb that much information at once. My head was spinning.
But...
My pump came with a CD, a manual the size of the LA City phone book, and an 800 number. AND I had found this site about a week earlier, thank goodness.
My opinion is: play the game, get your pump and teach yourself. That's the way diabetes really goes anyway. You learn what you need as it comes up (and ask the rest on this forum.)
Congrats on your decision, Judi. See you on the forum.
Mich
