I’m so excited to become one of the first users of the twiist. I saw the pump at Friends for Life in Orlando this past July.

This was my third time attending FFL in the past 4 years. I didn’t go last year because I took my daughter to the Olympics in Paris in the summer. She loves FFL and thinks of it as a one week summer camp.

The twiist both was one of her favorites because they had slime for the kids.

I attended a session on the twiist and learned about the algorithm it uses -LOOP and how it is the first pump that allows you to give insulin from your watch.

I was struck!

Like whoa! And it was relatively the same size as the pump I was currently using.

I eagerly asked, “How can I sign up for it?” The wonderful rep shows me how to sign up and last month, I became a twiister.

I had pump training at my Endo’s office and have been using the pump for just over a month.

I can say, “SO FAR, SO GOOD!”

The best part about it has been the improvement in my quality of sleep. The Mobi’s alerts constantly interrupted my sleep. There’s an alert that you can’t change that goes off any time your blood sugar goes over 200. And it will repeat unless you open the app and swipe the notification close.

Image this… It’s 10:34pm and there’s a spike in your blood sugar from the late dinner you had. Your blood sugar reaches 206. The alarm beeps or vibrates. You’ve been sleep for 30 minutes and are already dreaming about a vacation in Bangkok or the Maldives. You don’t move. The alarm goes off again 8 minutes later. You open your eyes only to realize you were only enjoying authentic pad thai in the dream world. You reach over to grab your eyeglasses and put them on. Because you can’t do anything without being able to see. Now that you’ve found your eyeglasses, you search for your cellphone. Maybe it’s right next to you or maybe it’s across the room. Either way, by the time you have the cellphone in your hands you have to wake all the way up because you must put in your passcode to unlock the phone. Now you’re sitting up, cellphone open, you find the app for the insulin pump, scroll to the notification and you must swipe it away to prevent the alert from going off again in the next 8 minutes. Now you’re wide awake.

This has been my life for the past 9 months and it was not the trade-off I knew I was signing up for.

The twiist doesn’t do that. I am sleeping through the night better than I have in a long time.

The price point of the twiist at $50 for some and $0 for others (depending your insurance coverage) is outstanding.

I blinged my twiist out. You see it here first. The first twiist user to bedazzle the heck out of their pump.

I’m enjoying the twiist pump and looking forward to sharing other benefits with you-like my thoughts on the algorithm.