In a couple of days I will doing my CGM training and getting hooked up. I am pretty excited about this. I am a guy so therefore I have a love for technology. It will be interesting to me to see how this all works. The biggest interest to me are the predictive alerts so that I can head off those highs and lows.
I do think about having something else attached to me but in the grand scheme of life it is only to help me live a better healthier life. Although my kids might start to think I am a "robot dude" (as my daughter calls robots).
The training is two hours and this one is in a group setting, so it will be interesting to see and hear other peoples thoughts and opinions. When I did my pump training there was another person being trained at the same time, I found it very interesting to hear their questions and concerns. The other trainee was a female so some things didn't pertain to me, like using a bra to hold the pump. Although, from this and the Facebook group where I ask them many questions I am finding that a bra may come in very handy. It would certainly help make changing clothes easier as I seem to not know what to do with the pump each day. It is a crude balance and holding system that really needs some refinement.
To me the CGM with the pump seems like a necessity, even though I don't have it started yet. It all seems so close to a better system of almost having a pancreas replacement. At some point I believe technology will be good enough that I will be to stop testing via finger sticks (or in my case alternate site (forearm)) and just have the pump site and CGM site.
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