I’m interested to find out what health insurance you have, although I’m sure many will give the same responses that you have received due to your deceivingly lower A1C. I’m still appalled that any insurance company would deny a T1 an insulin pump. If only I could mail you some of my blood from last month… my A1C was ungodly high…
On a random note, I randomly search craigslist at times to see if anyone is giving up free pump supplies (it happens sometimes) & occasionally I’ll see people putting up unused insulin pumps for sale. If these sales are legit (although I don’t think technically medically-legal), I wonder if that would get you through med school or at least til your insurance company grows a brain. I understand all of the implications involved in such a scheme (would a doc allow that? would the insurance be confused why you need so much novolog? could you find enough free supplies to get you through? etc) & understand it’s not an ideal situation or if it’s even possible. But I’m just putting it out there, I just feel for you & your poor hypo’s.
You should be qualified to wear a CGM due to your hypoglycemia unawareness (my Endo says four hypos at night per month qualify for Kaiser insurance). But, I was thinking I saw a photo of you wearing a Dexcom already? Hope you’re done with your awful research paper, but if not I’d recommend ‘13 ways to bleed on stage’ by Cold if you haven’t heard from them before (okay it’s old, but I still enjoy it). Here’s to hoping your insurance reads your appeal letter & gives you that long awaited pump!