Finding the chase and cutting to it

Sam with her pump on the first day

Since 8th Dec 2001, I have been the very proud owner of an insulin pump. A full 24 years after being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus, I had the chance of not having long acting insulin.

This is an important distinction: the pump gives me a human analogue insulin – in other words an insulin which is fundamentally identical to human insulin. It has a very short life span as a result and therefore is ideally suited to Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion (the proper name for an insulin pump). But it means freedom from long acting insulin – a real bonus as the unpredictability disappears from dose calculations.

Being a constant companion, the pump not only makes life so much more flexible (and dare I say, easier (ok, it has it’s own set of problems, but on the whole)) it is always there. It feels like it’s a part of me.

So, I hate swapping the pump out. My latest one has developed a very small hitch and needs to be checked and I feel like I am losing an arm! Tomorrow, I am sending off this one off and swapping in a different pump.

Strange how you get attached to things.

Casio fx-7000GA emulator– I have a confession to make – I miss my old programmable calculator. I think I could make an emulator, maybe web based.

I plan to start with the language and the graphical functions then mimic the UI.

Suggested by Jeff Patmore…

Way back archive

Hobbes’ Timeline

The Dracula Interview

Hi, this is my first blog entry: so apologies if I don’t get it right this time round!

I want this tool to allow me to put up gut reactions and views and allow me to work on them based on comments I receive. So please make comments!

This entry is going to be about facebook…

I have been a member since 2006 and have really liked the clean interface and easy way to update all my friends on where I am and what I’m doing. The chat is a nice feature – but mostly, that isn’t what facebook is used for! The chats via email really work for me, as I am updated while I am at my desk without having my inbox full of non-work stuff.

So, it was with trepedition that I entered the new look facebook. It seems ok, though there are a few bugs (hopefully they will be sorted out). I don’t really like the photo updates – having my home page full of other people’s holiday snaps isn’t necessarily a great start to my day! I am happy to be wrong about this.

So I am hanging out to see how it goes – take the plunge, try the new facebook!