Get an insulin pump. Today, it is the best available treatment for insulin-dependent diabetes. Tomorrow? Stay tuned.
If you can’t have a pancreas that works, get an insulin pump
WHY WOULD I? you ask.
Why wouldn’t you?
It is an extraordinary device. It will change your diabetic life.
I AM HAPPY WITH MY DIABETIC LIFE AS IT IS WITHOUT THE PUMP, you say.
And there are people who are happy living their lives without indoor plumbing. But usually once they get a toilet inside their house they are ecstatic.
WHAT IS SO GREAT ABOUT THIS INSULIN PUMP? you ask.
Do you remember how well your pancreas used to work before you got diabetes? How you could just do basically whatever you wanted, when you wanted and your little pancreas just did what it was supposed to do?
You don’t remember, because YOU NEVER EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT IT. Who knows what you were thinking about, but you weren’t thinking about your pancreas. So THE PUMP lets you think about other things. You program it for the day or the week and it does its thing. Like your pancreas used to do. You still have to pay it some mind. It is not as self-guided as your hair, for example. Nothing ever works as well as the original equipment. But the pump is another world away advanced from that old syringe song-and-dance.
Click here to get an excerpt from BETTER IS BETTER, the completely biased story on the insulin pump.
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