Even if you can't work out a loaner, I recall I had a 30 day money back guarantee when I bought my first MM... so you can try it out without risk
It may be an oversimplification, but I compare Pumping to MDI in this way: Imagine a truck that makes a daily trip down a twisting, gravel, potholed, mountain road with steep drops off to either side of the road. Now imagine that you get to set the speed once before the trip starts (basal rate) and only get to alter the steering once before each major bend in the road (meal bolus). Wouldn't you rather have more access to the accelerator, brake and steering wheel... that would be the pump
You can set multiple automatic basal rates for different times of the day and than change them on-the-fly for example, when exercising. Because you are only using fast-acting insulin your control is much greater both for increasing the amount of active insulin AND for decreasing it. You can set a bolus that is spread over time for example when grazing at a wedding buffet. But it does require more work, is expensive and of the infusion fails for whatever reason (many safeguards built in) you can quickly lose you basal insulin.
