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I have a bad case of tech envy. The other day, I checked out the Animas website to look at the  specs on the Animas 2020 because my friend just went on it. Instead of being swept away with the 2020 like I thought might happen, I am now wholly, madly, deeply in love with the new One Touch Ping that Animas has created.

 

I currently use the Minimed Paradigm 522. Up  until a few days ago, I was quite content with it. I love the fact that my CGMS is included in the device so I don't have to wear two hefty machines. I love the  ease of the Bolus Wizard. The way it calculates my average blood sugars, basal and bolus insulin, plus my carbs is absolutely amazing.

 

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I woke up this morning about 30 minutes before my alarm to answer a call from nature. I stumble to the restroom and as usual I set my insulin pump on the sink counter. I should explain that I have a relatively small bathroom so the sink is pretty much half of the room. Well, no sooner do I set my pump down that it slides off and slams on the floor.
Ouch!
I have had my pump fall before but this one sounded extra hard. I leaned over and picked up my poor pump to see if it was okay. It was not. The screen was blank and even though I closed my eyes and wished for it to be fixed, it did not work. (READ MORE)

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Have you seen the new Animas pink pump? Oh man, Olivia saw that on the Children With Diabetes website and just about lost her mind. "MUM!!! LOOOOOOOK!!!! A pink pump!!! When is my warranty up with MiniMed?"

Kudos to Animas for appealing to the girly-girl market. Even though Olivia's not particularly girly, it seems that as soon as she turned 13, pink was in. Although, looking at the fine print on the site, it's a limited edition. O's pump warranty isn't up for another year, so she probably will not be getting that. Bummer. Hopefully this is a trend that continues, though, with all the pump companies. If you have to be attached to a machine, it might as well be a machine that looks cool.
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I guess technically, I joined the diabetes online community back in October, 2005 when I joined dLife, and I became active in the overall DOC some time in 2008 -- but it wasn't until this year that I, and others, had the opportunity to "eyeball" the folk we'd been e-mailing, blogging to, commenting blog posts from, tweeting, and otherwise conversing with on various diabetes-related forums and social networks. 2009 is also the year dLife launched the dLife Community, and the year I started blogging here at Blogabetes.

 

 

Some of my year's highlights include:

 

March

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When I started writing this post I had my years mixed up and really thought that in January 2011 I'd be on the hunt for a new pump, but after doing some checking, I realized I have 18 months left before my warranty on Toohey expires. Nonetheless, I'm still already thinking about the pump-related decisions that I'll face in January 2012. 

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Four years. Is that too long to live with the same pump? Is it long enough? I find myself asking that a lot lately.

 

I was sorely disappointed when I realized earlier this year that my warranty on Toohey is up in 2012 not 2011. Don't get me wrong, I love Toohey and it has been very good to me. I've had few mishaps, but none serious enough to need a replacement pump (KNOCK ON WOOD!).

 

In 2008 when I started on my pumping quest, my first choice had been Animas. Well, actually my first choice was Omnipod but I started to realize that as much as I left my insulin pen behind I didn't want to get stuck leaving the Omnipod's PDA behind. There were some other minor issues I had with it, too. Anyway, my second first choice was Animas.

 

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As you know I’ll be switching from Medtronic to Animas when my warranty is up at the end of the year. Nothing really against Medtronic. I love my purple pump. It’s just that I originally planned to go with Animas and the Medtronic rep talked me out of it. I thought the CGMS function with Medtronic was where I wanted to be, but that reall didn’t work out. One of the reasons I’m switching to Animas is because of their relationship with Dexcom, which I liked much better.

 

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When I made final arrangements to get my Animas Ping my sales rep noted that I should contact my doctor's office about training. I said, "Can't I train myself?" I mean, I'm already a pumper so it's mostly an issue of learning the different features. She is likely supposed to say this, but told me that I should go ahead and take the training. She also mentioned that there is something I can sign declining the training.

 

I decided to go ahead with the training since it couldn't hurt anything. So naturally when I called my doctor's office they said they don't do pump training and gave me the number for the Animas rep for our area. I was flustered, but shortly got an email from Animas about who would be conducting my training. 

 

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I’ve known for at least a year that I would switch from my Medtronic pump to Animas as soon as my Medtronic warranty was up in January 2012. You may remember that Animas was my first choice when pump shopping four years ago, but I ultimately chose Medtronic partly because of the CGM feature (which I wound up not using because my insurance company at the time wouldn’t pay for the sensors).

 

I’ve been nearly counting down the days until January so I could make that call to Animas to get me started. But I wound up getting my new pump this month!

 

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So far I'm not head over heels for my new pump, and I really thought I would be. Kinda pains me to say that.

 

I'm a creature of habit and often have trouble with change, so I know some of these things will simply take some getting used to.

 

The two main issues I have are that there are a lot of extra steps when it comes to bolusing, compared to the Medtronic pump. Also, the reservoir is much, much smaller than my Medtronic pump.

 

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