Woohooo! Have had a great day in the land of the diabetes treatment/monitoring! Justin from insulinpumps.co.nz came and met me at my office and gave me all of the background info for the Dexcom CGMS, plus helped me do the first insertion on my one month CGMS journey. The insertion was easy and didn’t hurt.

It takes two hours for the unit to start transmitting properly and the time went quickly as I ran around the office tending to tight deadlines. By just after 3pm I got my first non-finger-prick, real time glucose reading – ahhhhh! It is so crazy to think that over the next month I won’t have to draw blood every couple of hours, and these pin-pricked digits of mine will get their chance to heal. Nice.

I’ve not had a lot of time to pay a lot of attention to it yet but did manage already to rescue myself from a certain hypo…. so awesome to be able to see it starting to decline and have the chance to treat yourself before it goes too low.

Will give you all some more detail when these crazy work deadlines slow down a bit! But a massive shout out to Justin for his fantastic help and enthusiasm today. If you are interested in this sort of thing you should drop him a line.