It's official. Another family member gets pumped!
Chloe is crazy for the new
PINK one. And thankfully these expensive little babies come in several colors so we can tell them all apart. Pumps are AMAZING...I call them "A Mom in a Box" since it does most of the work for us now. A little repreve from being the "human pancreas" for the last decade and a half!
Chloe's been around the diabetes block a few times, watching her brother and sister both get their pumps. She was excited to get started. When the moment came, and we pulled everything out of the box, we discovered the insertion device was not the same kind as her older siblings. They have the rather nebulous looking
quick-serter. These are the gentle looking round devices you use to insert your tubbing. But as Mitchell can tell you, there's really nothing gentle about it, especially when you're a skinny teenager. They only
look gentle.
But in a world where looks are everything, Chloe's came with the
sil-serter which resembles a mini torpedo launcher! It looked more like the device that punctures plastic price tag holders into place.
Oh my! Her eyes widened when it came out of the box. Our amazing nurse Maryanne reassured her that it was much more gentle than the quick-serter because this one went in on an angle.
Chloe just laughed nervously and said,
"Well, I'm just gonna look away for this..." and then she squinted her eyes shut and braced for pain.
It turns out, it wasn't all that bad. Chloe said, with a shrug of her shoulders,
"It's just another thing you have to get used to". And she's right. Boy am I glad she's nine and can reason through these things. We've come a long way since the days of having to help a wide-eyed two year old through the crazy world of diabetes!
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