The good. The awesome. The awesomest.

Thursday was such a good day!  We had our second clinic appointment with Dr. Marshall, our endocrinologist, and Janet, our educator.  Lovely people.

The good:

• Hannah has steadily gained her weight back.
• Her A1C number dropped significantly, though it still has a ways to go.  Blood has history (who knew?), and the A1C measures a 3 month average of something or other.  We were over 14 at the hospital, 10ish this week and want to be around 6-8.  Progress.
• Her blood sugars are moving in the right direction.
• Hannah's attitude and approach is awesome.

The awesome:

• We're signed up for pump school on the 25th.  
• We're signed up for pump school on the 25th.  
• We're signed up for pump school on the 25th.  

Um, yeah.  So pretty much Hannah was delirious at this news.  We'll go to class for a couple of hours and walk out with a pump -- that is pumping saline.  This lets us practice with installing connection sites, our new glucometer (blood sugar checking machine), and practice administering "insulin" that is really water. This gives her a chance not only to learn, but to make sure that she's comfortable having the equipment...approximately the size of a cell phone, always attached to her.  Some kids don't dig it.  I'm hoping she likes it as much as she hopes. That will begin the dance with insurance to get this heinously expensive piece of machinery on the way to our house. Then we go back to pump school the next week and wait for our pump to show up.

The awesomest:

• Having a pump moves us from 2 insulins to 1 insulin.
• Having a pump moves us from about 2200 shots a year to about 220...and yes, we are BOTH pretty delirious about this news.
• Dr. Marshall introduced us to Grace, another awesome 5th grader rocking T1D.  Emails exchanged, friendship begins....

This weekend, I face down the big giant ugly box of diabetes paraphernalia that I've been hiding in the bathtub upstairs as to not have to face it.  It must be done.  To counterbalance that barfy task, I spent last night buying some flowers and yard work stuff and am giving myself 4 hours in the sun. Was so excited last night, I gardened til 9 via the yard light.  Total bliss.