Teens and Insulin Pumps – Isn’t the challenge really diabetes?
I’m struggling with the media hype coming out of the American Academy of Pediatrics Journal‘s recently published article about the dangers of insulin pumps usage in adolescents. According to FDA records there were 1594 injuries to teens related to pump usage during a ten year period and thirteen teens died using insulin pumps in that decade. These are scary numbers and they are reportedly higher in teens than in...
Good news: we convinced our daughter to try the insulin pump. As you know from my previous blogs, we had brought the horse to water but... Read more »
Last month, I started using an insulin pump (see I'm pumped and PS-Day plus 7). And the past few days, I've gotten another obvious... Read more »
Just about everyone I know knows that I have diabetes. Even if people are not personally aquainted with me, they have usually noticed my... Read more »
We looked into insulin pumps within months of our son’s diagnosis, but it took us two years to start pumping. The delay was of our own... Read more »
After spending more than five hours researching and downloading journal articles to write the last blog, I decided to lighten it up a bit.... Read more »
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