Thursday, day for of the pump. We're trying a new calibration for the basal - the idea is simple.. raise it slowly until we hit the upper limit where it starts to drop my BGL down instead of keeping it steady. There's a "range" where you can put the most insulin in the basal and it'll contribute to consuming food and your background sugars, without actually pushing your BGL down towards a hypo.. we're currently seeking out this equilibrium in me.

Sleeping with the pump - I honestly have not really noticed it. Yes, I can't roll over the whole way without getting a hip full of pump.. but no, it seems I've not noticed it while I'm sleeping. It certainly hasn't woken me up and I've yet to wake up with a sore spot from it jabbing in to me all night. I can sleep on top of the cannula in my stomach without impeding the insulin delivery at all.

I did my first infusion set change today. I swapped from the right side of my stomach to the left side. Left over insulin in the pump was thrown away, which I thought was interesting. I was extra careful to make sure there were no air bubbles in my reservoir this time after the first nights big air bubble incident.

Today - I feel great. Really great. The constant trickle of insulin from the pump is doing something very good to my body. I managed to do some extremely tricky engineering this week too, which I'm not sure I could have done quite so delicately prior to moving to the pump.

I really look forward to being able to go to bed early and sleep in late. I also don't have to plan my meals quite as much - I do need to take along a blood glucose monitor to take a measurement - which then gets wirelessly sent to my pump, but then I just tell the pump the number of carbs in my meal and it takes care of the rest.