{"id":39,"date":"2012-03-16T11:42:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T18:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2012-03-16T11:45:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T18:45:23","slug":"books-for-type-1-diabetes-and-insulin-pumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Books for Type 1 diabetes and insulin pumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll preface my recommendations stating up front that I am an Omnipod pump user and a Dexcom CGM user, though I do often take breaks from both and give myself a vacation by going back to multiple-daily injections (MDI regimen).<\/p>\n<p>That being said, the following books have been instrumental for me to try and grasp the complexity of emulating the behavior of my malfunctioning pancreas either with devices (CGM\/pump) or insulin injections and plain old finger-sticks, the first on pancreatic functioning and management with insulin, the last two on insulin pumping (Walsh&#8217;s book is an encyclopedia of knowledge for pumping insulin):<\/p>\n<ul type=\"1\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Think-Like-Pancreas-Practical-Insulin--Completely\/dp\/0738215147\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1331920310&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Think like a Pancreas &#8211; A practical guide to managing diabetes with insulin &#8211; Gary Scheiner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diabetesnet.com\/dmall\/product_info.php\/preorder-pumping-insulin-5th-edition-p-922\" target=\"_blank\">Pumping Insulin &#8211; John Walsh<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(5th edition coming out soon?)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Insulin-Pump-Therapy-Demystified-Essential\/dp\/1569245088\" target=\"_blank\">Insulin Pump Therapy Demystified &#8211; Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope this is useful\/helpful reading for any of you looking for helpful guides to our disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll preface my recommendations stating up front that I am an Omnipod pump user and a Dexcom CGM user, though I do often take breaks from both and give myself a vacation by going back to multiple-daily injections (MDI regimen). That being said, the following books have been instrumental for me to try and grasp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[7,9,8,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urenda.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}