Diabetes Dad

We are now on a pump, yipeee.....
Well, the pump hunt was finally over. The hunt was exceptionally difficult. My wife and I had not used a pump before and therefore had no idea which features would be useful and which were not. I actually found the process of choosing a pump emotionally difficult - because it was so important to make the right choice to do the very best we could for our son.
The medical team could not be a lot of help, because they work for the government they could not give any advice around which pump to choose. But finally we choose the Cozmo pump because:

• The 0.025 delivery in the Animas did not seem to be that big of a deal - but this did cause us some concern, because we did not know if we would need it or not. Turns out we don't - we have not even used the 0.05 on the Cozmo.
• The Cozmo is more like a cellphone to use, which makes it easier to train other people.
• The Cozmo comes with the ability to sync to a computer, the Animas requires you to buy it seperately.
• The new Cozmo has a food database, and we have been guaranteed to get a new pump.

Although as a bit of a teak geek, the Animas looks a lot nicer, but we let Cade choose the colour of his Cozmo and he likes it.

It's been 7 weeks on the pump and we can not imagine going back.

Next time, life on a pump, starting school and other fun games