Guille

When Guille was 4 years old, she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in France.

From that day on, our family began years of injections, learning, difficult nights, exhaustion, and a lot of pain. As her mom, I had to learn how to support her, understand diabetes, and stay on top of every detail of her daily life.

Today, after 7 years of living with diabetes, our reality is also very different. We have built a large childhood diabetes community in Uruguay, and Guille has become a voice for diabetes, helping raise awareness and share our experience with other families.

And along that journey, Medtrum came into our lives.

When her doctor told us that Medtrum had arrived in Uruguay and talked to us about this option, Guille immediately knew it was the pump she wanted. She had seen it online: a tubeless pump.

For years, she had refused the idea of using a pump with tubing. She didn’t want to have something connected to her body. But this one was different. This was the one she had chosen.

The news brought us so much happiness. Then came the paperwork, the waiting, and finally the day of the insertion.

That is when this patch pump arrived and changed the way we live our days.

Today, it still feels almost unreal that Guille can eat and simply swipe her finger on the device to deliver her bolus. For her, it has become completely natural.

We see her happier, more comfortable, and able to enjoy things that used to feel much more complicated.

It doesn’t mean diabetes has disappeared. It is still part of our everyday life. But Medtrum has made so many things simpler and brought us closer to what, for our family, means living as normally as possible.

And that means so much to us.