I tend to get the best absorption from pump sites smack dab in the middle of my abdomen. Say, within a several-inch radius of my belly button. It's kind of odd, actually, since I used my love handles exclusively when I was on shots.

Several times since Toohey and I hooked up (such a bad, bad pun) I have tried to use my hip/love handle for a site. Partly because I know it's good to rotate and partly because often the real estate around my belly button is taken up. However, the two times I can remember using a hip site, I had to rip it out before its time was up because my numbers were so terrible.

So I was having trouble lately figuring out how to be able to use my hips and other areas of my body. I know, this shouldn't be rocket science, but it really did take me a while to figure out that all I had to do was gradually move my sites outward instead of yanking them miles across my body.

So with my last two sites I've moved them only slightly toward my hips on the same side as the current site instead of moving them to the other side of my belly. This morning's site was so close to the old one that when I was in the bathroom at work this afternoon all I saw was the old site (I leave old sites in for at least half a day to make sure the insulin gets fully absorbed; it helps with post-meal highs on site-change days) and thought that I had somehow disconnected.

So my hope is that my body will gradually remember how to absorb insulin from sites other than the little pookie place around my belly button (sheesh, I wish it was as little as that makes it sound!). It's going to take some time, a dash of patience and likely a healthy dose of trial and error, but that's what this whole damn disease is about anyway.