Today is my birthday and I got the second most exciting present ever. The first most exciting present arrived 4 years ago in the shape of my first ever insulin pump. What a fabulous bit of kit. You can keep your iphones, laptops, satnavs and other gizmos. For me, the most life-changingly, health improvingly, fabulous gadget… Read More »
The day has finally come. Ring the bells, dance in the streets and drink til dawn to celebrate the arrival of some new diabetes tech. Medtronic’s new and improved CGM sensor – Enlite – has ticked all the legislative boxes and is being launched today in the UK. According to the marketing propaganda “The Enlite… Read More »
Medtronic have announced that their new Enlite CGM sensor – as played with by Alison and Tim in Switzerland recently – has received CE Mark approval in Paris which means it can now be launched subject to other local approvals in more than 35 countries. As yet, no news on a launch date in the UK,… Read More »
Avid readers of your soaraway Shoot Up will know that I’m a fan of my puntastically named pump Englebert Pumperdinck. This is for many reasons which I’ve covered off in previous articles so I won’t bore you with them again here. However, one of the unexpectedly useful features of Englebert is the bolus wizard, which… Read More »
This bewildering cry is still heard on occasion in the antiquated backwaters of diabetes care. If you’re dealing with such out-dated, antediluvian attitudes to providing pumps, a little bit of help is at hand. (Don’t get too excited, no one won the lottery and agreed to give everyone a free pump, but it’s a little… Read More »
Never one to look on the bright side of life, my pump continues its series of whinges about how awful I am to live with and how terrible life is for a pump along with the inevitable feeble threat to sell my secrets to the world. It’s pitiful, it really is… I’m not a happy pump. She’s… Read More »
The thing about injections and infusion sets is there are so many options and such a vast selection of flesh to put them in it’s hard to know where to start. I started young with the whole injection business and with that came a picture of a man/woman/android complete with grids on each injectable area.… Read More »
The human body is a marvellous thing, but it is sadly lacking in storage space. All the organs have their own spot, but there’s no room for expansion. When you decide to wear your pancreas on the outside rather than the inside, it does make for an interesting storage challenge. Where the hell do you… Read More »