Narrative Essay About Insulin Pump

Eight-year old me got excited for a very particular reason: an insulin pump. I was thrilled because I finally got this device in my belly that effectively worked like an artificial pancreas, injecting insulin at my will. The pump amazed me: how could this thing, smaller than my fist, substitute that organ that wasn’t doing much for me? Luckily, these pumps are disposable after three days of use, so my curiosity could easily be satisfied by simply breaking one open and seeing what was inside. As soon as I had the chance, I did just that, gathered my tool -an old Swiss Army knife- and proceeded to break open the pod. I was blown away, it looked so simple: just a few batteries, a reservoir for the insulin, and a circuit board.
Although the doctors said that this pump would greatly increase my freedom, in terms of the food I could eat, my parents still had much control over what I ate and how much insulin I injected. My independence from my parents, in terms of managing the condition, was gained later at the age of thirteen, in an almost forceful and necessary way: the windsurfing regattas. …show more content…
This means predicting how the wind will shift, where the next puff is coming from, and what the direction of the current is going to be in half an hour. This has to be added to predicting how my blood sugar will be during the race, and how it is affected by the strenuous exercise. If it was too low, my performance and decision-making ability decreased greatly; if it is too high, I quickly got dehydrated. Although it seems that it can be too much for a teenager to handle, having to predict the two factors at once actually made me a much better rapid decision-maker, something that I now apply to most other facets of my life, from being a leader in the student council to solving a difficult math problem in a test with very limited

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