| Hi Jim:
I happen to work at Medtronic Diabetes in Northridge, California and I work at the 24 hour helpline assisting customers with their insulin pumps. The minimum age to use one of our pumps is 7 years, therefore, your daughter may qualify. I receive at least two calls per day from customers telling us how happy they are with our insulin pumps as it provides tighter control than they had before. I've had customers with A1C's over 10 who now have A1C's in the 6.0 to 7.0 range! News like that brings tears to my eyes!
Imagine only having to insert an infusion set once every three days instead of daily manual injections!
If interested, please call Medtronic Diabetes at (800) 646-4633 then press option "3" to get through to one of our pump therapy specialists.
Thanks,
Sheila On Jun 2, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Jim Goodin wrote: This is def'ly off topic and hopefully not intrusive to anyone but does anyone in the LD community that cares to share info, have Type 1 diabetes either themselves or in their immediate family? If so have you or your family had experience with an insulin pump? My daughter 11 is a Type 1 diabetic since age 8. We do "tight control" insulin injection therapy. We are making plans to move to an insulin pump system this summer for her and I'm interested in any positive/negative input that you might care to offer. Thanks, again forgive the interlude from music which I'd much rather discuss but this is a community of a lot of folks that seems pretty open and I wanted to poll the list for thoughts. Thanks.
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