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Last Friday, The Other Half and I decided it was time to take advantage of some of the new phones and specials and upgrade our old mobiles to new smartphones. For various reasons, we settled on a pair of LG Ally phones, on the Android operating system. 

 

 

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It's always a challenge buying presents for a teenager. They usually want something expensive or impractical or, generally, a combination of the two. And since my husband and I are broker than broke things at the International Broke Festival, expensive and impractical isn't going to happen this year.

However, I think I have come up with an ingenious solution to the problem and one that may even win me a cool mom award. Not the Cool Mom of the year, but maybe for the month, possibly even for the quarter. I'm getting Olivia a cell phone.
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Remember how I had this brilliant idea to get Olivia a cell phone for Christmas? How I thought it would be a fantastic way to keep in touch when she was out with friends or doing after school stuff?

Yeah. Not so much. She ran thru $25 in FOUR days. Doing what, you may ask? Well, not texting me. No, no, no. Texting her friends. Because even though she has use of the computer AND the phone, she still felt it necessary to sit up in her bedroom and send 200+/- text messages. In four days.

She is now under strict instructions that the phone is to be used to call or text only me or Mark, her step-dad. I hope she sticks to this or she's going to be doing a lot of babysitting to pay for those text messages.
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Doing my final preparations for tomorrow's presentation, I put together a last-minute shopping list of materials I need to demonstrate some of my "Connected Medical Devices". I'm not quite sure why I started off thinking I needed to bring (almost) every glucometer in my arsenal, but the list started accumulating strips for my OneTouch Ultra meters ("pick a meter, any meter"), my Bayer Contour USB, and my Wavesense Presto. (READ MORE)

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Have you seen this - the Glucophone? It's a cell phone and glucometer all in one. Holy digital dynamite, Batman!
The website says "A text message of the results can be transmitted to anyone the patient authorizes enabling real-time remote monitoring. The GlucoPhone helps minimize the daily hassles associated with the treatment of the disease...."
They seem to be thinking about your doctor or your CDE getting the blood test results, which might be good sometimes. (READ MORE)

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In my last post, I gave some of my initial observations of the Android operating system, and how it relates to my cellphone smartphone as a personal-safety device. Now it's time to look at the potential of this device in the hands of some talented developers, and what it might be able to do for diabetes management.

 

I'm first beginning to wade through the Android/diabetes waters as I write this, so there's a good possibility that some of my wishlist items have already been created. (If you find them, please comment back!) To-date, I've found one comment thread in the "dLife Garage" forum and whatever a simple Google search is throwing at me.

 

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Moments after shaking my finger at my dad for buying No. 1 a pair of Heelys, he said, "And I bought something for you, too." Insert foot into mouth. (And if I hear one more time "They are not dangerous" I think I'll blow.)

 

"Really? Me? Wow!" I said without even knowing what it was.

 

Dad started to pull something out of his pocket as I came around the couch to be closer to him. It was an iPhone and I lit up!

 

He explained how he and Mom were upgrading and that I was getting an old one (I think!), but I couldn't have it now because the SIM card wouldn't go in.

 

We chatted a bit about cell phones and my new (local!) cell number and what to do with my old phone, etc.

 

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"We can’t have him beeping all day in class," I said.

 

It’s like I’m Anakin Skywalker sending R2D2 to his first day of android school.

 

"Yeah," Maeve mumbled, her mouth full of Cheerios.

 

"It would be distracting to everyone in the class."

 

I fumbled with Charlie’s pump settings, trying to figure out how to turn off the beeping from the low reservoir. I never could figure it out, though I did get it to vibrate momentarily.

 

"Ooh," Charlie said.

 

"Do that again."

 

Did I mention there’s a kid with type 1 who just entered kindergarten at the school?

 

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For many of us, our sense of self is tied to our glucometers, our pumps, and/or our CGMs. "Sad, but true," you may say. The truth is, we tether ourselves to these devices to maintain and/or improve our lives. In addition, most jurisdictions require us to carry at all times some form of government-issued identification -- and of course, we dare not go anywhere without our health insurance cards and our cell phones.

 

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"Hold your pump," the tall twenty-something dude with multiple piercings in both ears said prosaically to Charlie as he helped him out of his rock-climbing harness.

 

Lurking nearby, I was amazed by a couple things. First - how did the guy working the rock-climbing birthday party know it was a pump? Second – how is it that he had no reaction to it other than to move it out of the way? Like it was just another appendage getting tangled in rope and buckles.

 

When he walked away, I asked Charlie, "Did you tell him it was a pump?"

 

"No."

 

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