Parent of a seven-year-old T1D here. We've had him DIY looping (Omnipod, Dexcom, LoopKit) for years now. (Wow, time flies.) Cannot recommend this technology hig

Parent of a seven-year-old T1D here. We've had him DIY looping (Omnipod, Dexcom, LoopKit) for years now. (Wow, time flies.) Cannot recommend this technology highly enough. Actually, there were a few big wins, in series: started with MDI (multiple daily injections) and finger pricks. That was awful with a two-year-old, lemme tell ya. Then we got CGM (and Nightscout). That let us sleep at night. Sometimes. But we still had to perforate our small child several times a day, sometimes holding him down as he screamed. Eventually we got a pump, so needles were far less frequent. Got a prescription for some numbing cream, which helped a lot, too. And then came Loop. Loop streamlined the meal process and gave us a lot more margin for error, and it cut down on ad hoc corrections. With Loop, we now sleep _most_ nights. And things feel almost normal most of the time. Carb math is still a lot of work. (Admittedly, we're probably more precise than most people.) And the whole system can just stop working well for reasons you can't discern sometimes. (Nah, it's always a growth spurt.) But this combo if T1D tech has really, seriously changed our lives. I'm so grateful to the folks who built the open source parts of it.