When will he get used to it?

Elliot has had the pump on now for a couple of weeks, and he still hates it. It makes me so sad to have to change his site. It hurts him so much. The other day, I was changing his site and decided to put the old site on his Lenny the Lion (a special stuffed animal that Medtronic sends to children. It shows the different places that you can put the pump sites on. I tell Elliot that Lenny has diabetes too.) and he started to rub Lenny's  bum and said "Ouch mommy". I started to cry. I just kept apologizing to him that I gave him the disease. It breaks my heart that my baby has to go through this.

                                                     This is Lenny the Lion.

                                                   Elliot's new pump.

                                                 Elliot and Lenny the Lion.


  Just a few minutes ago, I saw a link that my friend Sarah tagged me in. It was a trailer for a documentary on 3 research teams trying to find a cure for diabetes. I cried during the trailer. What they said was so true. And the thing was, they are diabetics as well. I want to find more people like me. I need to find more people like me. People who have diabetes and are raising a diabetic child as well. I have my mother, and she is amazing, but I need a bigger support group. I need people who were diagnosed at a really young age like I was. Someone who went all through out school with it. Preschool, kindergarten, elementary, jr high and high school. Here is the trailer if you are interested in checking it out:
http://www.upworthy.com/meet-a-girl-whos-too-young-to-have-a-type-especially-this-kind?g=2&c=ufb1

Insulin Pump for the boy!

  Great news! Elliot has his pump saline start today! We got his insulin pump in the other day. We are so excited to finally get his pump in. He starts the insulin start on the 15th so we are so much closer to having two pump users in our household. It will be so much easier to take care of his diabetes now. The pump has done so much for me, now it's Elliot's turn.
  His diabetes has gotten better. He isn't going as high as he used to. We think he was going through a major growth spurt and that's why he was doing so poorly. I've been doing a lot better myself. Although, today my stomach is bothering me. I'm not feeling so great.
  Yesterday was my birthday. My mother bought a small cake to sing happy birthday with. Elliot wanted a piece so bad. But we kept saying no. It hurts to have to do that. He got a teeny tiny piece and his shot afterwards, just so he wouldn't feel left out. I feel so bad having to do that, specifically because I know how it feels. You want something so bad, but you know you can't have it, and if you do, you have to inject yourself with insulin. That isn't what I wanted for my son. I wanted him to be healthy. But, it happened. So we have to move on and take care of him to the best of our ability as we can.