Colcalli

This is a routine Pod change for Caleb.

See "video responses" - one is the video that won and the other is a radio show announcing the win - here also is a news article.
http://tudiabetes.com/profiles/blogs/calebs-story-makes-the-local

Radio report of Caleb's win in the OmniPod video contest. Note - these are three separate reports back to back, so there is some redundancy. Caleb is at the very end. Thanks for watching.

Editorial notes:
Insulet is based in Massachusetts, not Danbury.
Although Caleb has great a1cs, it is not uncommon to have BGs out of range on a daily basis.
OmniPod does not regulate insulin delivery. All settings for basal (background) and bolus (correction and food doses) insulin delivery are determined and administered by the user.

OmniPod - This is the story of Caleb and his OmniPod and how it let's him do what he wants, eat what and when he wants, and just be the kid he wants to be.
OmniPod makes having type 1 diabetes easier.
Please view, view, view!! Caleb wants to win the OmniPod contest and be a feature on their site. The more you view, the better the chances!

Thanks for looking!

There are certain foods that cause Caleb's blood sugar to be unpredictable. These nights are particularly troublesome as he cannot alert me to lows while he sleeps and growth hormone also makes his overnight blood sugars irregular. I check Caleb's blood sugar frequently on these nights in order to refine his dosing, particularly his extended bolus. These nights used to result in BG's over 300 that did not easily correct. Here you will see they are much closer to within range, although still not easily corrected.

Nick Jonas talks about his life with diabetes and the song he wrote about it, "A Little Bit Longer".

OmniPod: Caleb has Type 1 diabetes and uses the OmniPod Insulin Mangement System. These are many of the steps we go through to change a pod. Start to finish takes about 5 minutes.

Caleb has Type 1 diabetes. He uses the OmniPod insulin management system. Many people with Type 1 visit their endo every three months. Because we are able to keep good control over Caleb's BGs and quarterly endo visits yield little other than an A1C check, Caleb goes semi-annually, with A1C checks done locally in between.

The day we were planning to visit the lab for a blood draw, I happened across a home A1C kit. It seemed like fate. So $9 later, Caleb and I were home, performing the test, rather than in the lab.

With A1Cs performed twice a year in the endo office and once a year in conjunction with his annual blood work, this seems like a reasonable option for a once a year check to help minimize a little of the discomfort and burden that managing type 1 diabetes requires.

OmniPod - Caleb has Type 1 Diabetes and uses the OmniPod insulin management system to deliver insulin into his blood stream 24 hours a day. This is Caleb helping out changing his pod which needs to be done every two to three days.

Caleb gets an annual blood draw to test for complications that can arise from having diabetes. Caleb uses the OmniPod Insulin Management system.

OmniPod: Caleb has type 1 diabetes. He is 5 years old, He uses an insulin pump to manage his diabetes - the OmniPod. As a person living with diabetes, Caleb often has blood sugars out of the normal or acceptable range. This is one of the times where he is low and needs to be treated with food to raise his blood sugar. This is not uncommon - happens almost daily. If Caleb were to get too low, he could fall into a diabetic coma, and perhaps die. To avoid this, we check his sugar 10 or more times a day by taking a blood sample.

Please note - Caleb chooses to check his blood sugar using his arm, which is less sensitive than his finger tips. In periods of a rapidly falling blood sugar, a reading from the arm could provide an "old" BG by about 10 minutes as compared to a finger stick. This video does depict an incident of a rapidly dropping BG. If you suspect that your blood sugar is dropping quickly, doctors recommend using a finger stick to get the most current/accurate BG reading.

Caleb has Type 1 diabetes. He was diagnosed shortly before turning 4. He currently uses an insulin pump - the Omnipod (same as his hero Nick Jonas). We are hopeful that Denise Faustman and her team and/or the JDRF will be able to cure this disease in the near future. But they are still in need of funding to do so.