I'm so stoked.

Yesterday I got the 2nd best news I've gotten all year. I've been approved for an insulin pump. I currently inject insulin 4 times a day, that's 1,460 injections a year. When the pump gets here in a couple of weeks I'll only need to move it every 2nd or 3rd day.

It's hard to put into words just how much of a downer that gets to be. After years of injections there were times when I just did NOT want to stab myself again and those times have been getting more frequent and harder to resist.

I anticipate this will be every bit as fantastic as when I got the glucose monitoring device.

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Good news. Will this help on cost too?

VA healthcare covers all of my insulin needs 100%. Right now that means insulin pens, needles and a Constant Glucose Monitoring device (CGM) that I wear on my arm. Soon it will mean a CGM, pump, possibly needles if it doesn't have an applicator and cartridges of insulin (or the pump could be disposable). I'll be wearing that on my arm also.

I don't know exactly which pump I'll be getting but it's likely I'll have to switch brands on my CGM.

I also take Ozempic once a week, I have a co-pay on that.

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That's great. How much is it costing me?

Probably just a few pennies.

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That's great. How much is it costing me?

Hopefully I'll be able to get my own health insurance soon but right now I'm not just "low income" I'm in the "extremely low income group".

Right now my YouTube channel is at 748 subscribers and 1421 hours watched over the last 12 months. If I hadn't needed to take a 9 month break from making videos I'd probably be monitized already. All I can do now is stay persistent and keep growing my channel.

Once I finish taking notes from the book "Knowing Bass" I need to take the book in for repairs, (the pages in the front are coming loose from the spine) I'll be putting out 3 videos a week.