I'm on the Parents List on the Children With Diabetes website. It's been a wealth of information and support over the years and anyone with a newly diagnosed child should definitely check them out.

One of the women on the list posted a link to a story that ran in the UK recently, about a new Bluetooth device that attached to a blood glucose meter.

Isn't that cool? I'd LOVE to have one of those. I don't know if they're available over here or not (not that I could afford something like that right now anyway), but I'm going to check into it, just because I'm nosy.

I know there's a glucophone on the market, which is also a very cool tool. Although, of course, the test strips aren't covered by insurance. Amy, over at Diabetes Mine, said the company was going to sell the strips for $20 a vial of 50 strips but even that would be a steep price of $120 for the 300 strips Olivia uses each month. We have lousy health insurance and I've had to fight to get the One Touch strips covered. I doubt they'd cover these.

But it sure would be cool. There's even a prototype for the Apple iPhone. How obnoxious would that be to have my 13 year-old daughter owning an iPhone while I'm left with a little piece of crap $40 Motorola?