Experiences with my Insulin Pump and staying healthy.

So, I am currently on a Medtronix pump. I've been on Medtronix since I was given a pump, I guess, over the years I continue to be with Medtronix. I'm currently on 640, which is not the latest pump, but it's a good pump. It's a bit large compared to the previous one which was Veo. It took me a while to get used to it because of the increase in size. But it's a good pump, it's more waterproof, so when I go out, I go walking, whatever, I'm not so worried about it getting wet. It's a bit more fragile. I've managed to crack my pump many times and understand there was the particular 640 has a fault, but Medtronic's team were amazing at as replacing them. And always, I would call them the next day I would have a replacement pump. So that the model I have, like I said, can be a bit fragile, but the metronix team were amazing at replacing it. The support actually I got I had from metronix few times I had some questions from them was also very, very good. Do I like my pump? Yes. But I have to say that, in some ways I preferred my old via because it was smaller and to be honest the color screen versus black and white it doesn't make huge difference for me however being able to see the the CGM graph on it better and being able to zoom in having more screen I guess helps so it's an interesting it's an interesting balance I did prefer veil because it was small now I understand that this new size of pump is what we be having going forward and I guess I have got used to it but but yeah it's a good pump like I said it breaks occasionally and I've had some software problems with it as well I think it got replaced four or five times already but again I've heard that other people with 640 have the same problem I have friends who are on newer pumps and they haven't had this problem so I'm guessing I'm guessing Medtronic's have fixed it as I said Medtronic's were always good at at very quickly replacing a pump that didn't behave the way it should have. Thank you, that's very cool. You know, pump may be rubbish but metronics have been good, it's a fact, right? Yeah. It's not rubbish, it just breaks, it's really weird, it cracks. Okay, I've got another one. Another one, how do you stay healthy so long term as a person with type 1 diabetes? How do you stay healthy as a type 1 diabetic? Very good question. Well, there are two types of health, I guess, mental health and physical health, right? So what I try to do is to lead as normal as in non-diabetic life as I possibly can while being a type 1 diabetic. I don't want that being diabetic to take over my life. I don't let it stop me doing things that I want to do. On the other hand, it impacts everything I do. I mean, it is a chronic illness. It's a condition that that's going to be with me and you know I don't know if we'll ever find the cure there isn't one right now but if we do that would be amazing probably not in my lifetime but eventually. So how do I stay healthy? I try to eat healthy but doesn't always happen. I exercise, I run four times a week and I don't look like runner but I do run four times a week. I walk. I have two small children. I go cycling with them. I try to stay active. I try to eat well. I also work with my hospital team obviously and I go for my regular checks. My GP that I'm currently with, they also run diabetic clinic and even though with hospital they asked me if I wanted to be checked by them as well and I said yes. It's always good to have more checks. So it's about checking my weight, checking my blood pressure, eating well, staying healthy, being active. And again, I don't let it take over my life because I think that, for me at least, wouldn't be, from a mental health perspective, the best thing.