Pump ordered and shipped

So finally ABC got their act together and added me onto my 'husband''s plan. FINALLY. Animas got every settled and made the order for my pump!!!

SOOOO Tomorrow I will receive by Purolator Air: My brand spanking new Animas Ping (in Green). It comes with the Ping meter which communicates with the pump and can bolus wirelessly instead of having to pull out the pump to bolus everytime! Perfect for wearing dresses etc. YAY

I will also receive a box of cartridges and 3 boxes of sample inset II infusion sets (2 in each box) which will keep me going while I order more from the pharmacy! ALSO I will receive a THIGH-THING for freeeee from the nice Animas lady :)

I am BEYOND excited and the green will be perfect for me - according to my friend Alayna, I am artsy and green will be nice :)

I just hope everything goes well and my adjustment period to being on a pump isn't TOO long. Will post tomorrow with updates on how the pump looks! WOO

Pump SOON

Alright so I have an update!!

A couple weeks ago... well more than that.. I can't remember when exactly - I did a Animas 2020 saline pump trial. I LOVED it. I love Animas and I love its pump. I wore the pump for 1 week and while still on injections.. I enjoyed having the pump to try on, to wear like I was wearing one myself ... It was kinda dd though because I wasn't benifiting from the pumps functions with insulin involved.

Weird because it didn't come with a clip... so I had to stick it into pockets, AND I had to buy a cellphone case to stick it in....good thing with this was that it FITS in a cellphone case - which means its small enough to hide in a pocket and pretend like you don't have one on.

The pump I wore was silver and I didn't mind having it attached to me - although I would definitely have to get used to that. It was odd having to get dressed while having a tube attached to my side.. peeing and other things too.

When I get my pump - it will come with a clip -THANK GOD so I will be able to clip it to my pants, to my skirts and to my underwear as I need to.

So after the trial... I decided that I 100% wanted an Animas pump and wasn't taking no for an answer.. so I called them and got the paperwork started.

I sent the papers to them, they contacted Empire Life and got them to send me a quote for MY insurance.. What we needed to do now was to get me on Martin's HR plan and added to his Alberta Blue Cross (ABC) plan.

So we sent the paperwork to the HR dept. and waiting for them to get back to us with follow-up....it seems like all of this went smoothly but ALAS it never does.. ABC fucked around and took control of everything and made us feel like small fish in a sea of others.

Finally today we got a call back from HR that I was added - PHEW. Tomorrow I will have a conference call with Animas and ABC and they will ship me my BRAND NEW Animas Ping! in GREEN!

Side note - ANIMAS PING CAME OUT IN CANADA 4 weeks ago! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

SO excited.... it will make this SO much easier.

Anyway.. will come back and update soon!

Andree