Pump consumables are a salvation for Artem

Artem met the new year 2024 in the intensive care unit. A few days before, his doctor had sent him to have his blood sugar tested. The test was done in the morning, and the boy was hospitalized in the afternoon. At that time, his mother's knowledge of diabetes was at the level of “it happens to old people who ate a lot of sweets”. And when Artem started drinking a lot of water, she went to a nephrologist because she thought her son had something wrong with his kidneys.

Then a real nightmare began for Artem and his mother, because every meal meant an insulin injection and, in addition, finger pricks every hour. And Artem is very afraid of injections. The boy was crying and begging: “Mommy, I'm not going to eat, not when I'm hungry”. His mother thought that it was a terrible dream and that it had to end, that the doctors were wrong, because no one in their family had diabetes, Artem was engaged in sports and ate right. After being discharged from the hospital, the mother and son went to the Institute of Endocrinology in Kyiv, where the diagnosis was only confirmed. Having lost the last hope that the doctors had made a mistake, his mother had to pull herself together and learn to live on...

The woman began to study information about diabetes and realized that the only way to save them was an insulin pump, because it allows you to make one puncture every 2-3 days, not up to 10 injections daily. The state does not provide pumps for free. So, having sold everything she could and enlisted the help of friends and colleagues, her mother bought her son a pump. How happy he was to be able to eat and inject carbohydrates on the pump, instead of having to take injections every time! He didn't even mind the insults from his peers that he walked around with a “push-button phone” because the pump looked like one. But having a pump is not everything. It constantly needs consumables – infusion sets, reservoirs, sensors, etc. An ordinary Ukrainian family is unable to cope with the constant costs of such equipment, so they hope for help.