If any of you has taken a quick moment to read my statement to the right you will see that a portion of every sale from my Esty shops, is donated to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (click here). This is very important to me because my son was diagnosed with Juvenile or Type 1 diabetes when he was 12 1/2. He is 18 1/2 now. Over the past 5 years alone there have been TREMENDOUS strides made in advances for Type 1 diabetics with new insulins and the PUMP. The pump is a very high tech device which, through an infusion site that is attached to Edward's body, gives him tiny drips of insulin all day and all night. It is programed to give him different amounts of insulin depending on the time of day. When he is more active during the day, he receives more insulin than when he is sleeping. These settings can be changed and tweaked according to how active he is. He has to count every carb that he eats, and with calculations that he plugs into the pump, it then gives him the proper amount of insulin to 'cover' what he has eaten. The WONDER of the pump is that he needs no shots, and the control of his blood sugars is much tighter. This brings the level of complications further on down the line, WAY down. He must change the infusion site every couple of days, so yes, that may hurt for a moment. It has all sorts of bells and whistles if anything is wrong, but that is rare. It is because of research dollars that this pump was invented and has become so extremely sophisticated. There are new pieces that can be added to this, but he is not ready to put another infusion into his body every couple of days. It's been a long haul, but he's doing GREAT. He just finished his Freshman year at college and did an EXCELLENT job of managing his diabetes. He's a great kid, he's funny, he's a gifted artist and we are very, very proud of him. 
