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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: co-worker hypoglycemia pigs random
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I had a very curious and unexpected conversation at work recently. An amusing person that I work with, who I'll refer to as "The Random Talker", will pour out mouthfuls of directionless information at the drop of a hat. I'm talking about a totally un-sequestered menagerie of anomalous comments. This time, however, something struck home with me and we had a more meaningful, if not still awkward conversation.
Random: "Sometimes I get really angry and confused when I don't eat enough"
Me: "Oh really, I know the feeling,"
Random: "I become hypoglycemic, but I bet you don't know what that is, do you?"
Me- (Sounding like a know it all): "Ya, your blood sugar drops, and you can get sweaty, hungry, nervous, jittery, not a good feeling" (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 In the News Real Life
Tags: bloggers JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes meetups new friends outreach World Diabetes Day
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I guess technically, I joined the diabetes online community back in October, 2005 when I joined dLife, and I became active in the overall DOC some time in 2008 -- but it wasn't until this year that I, and others, had the opportunity to "eyeball" the folk we'd been e-mailing, blogging to, commenting blog posts from, tweeting, and otherwise conversing with on various diabetes-related forums and social networks. 2009 is also the year dLife launched the dLife Community, and the year I started blogging here at Blogabetes.
Some of my year's highlights include:
March
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: blood glucose management Cell phones glucometers Logging reality testing blood sugar tools
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I'm in the middle of preparing a presentation for my computer user group on "Connected Medical Devices" -- that is to say, durable medical equipment that has the ability to connect to a smartphone, a computer, or the Internet for the purpose of maintaining a log of data points, keeping track of one or more patients' health, or helping one manage his own health.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food In the News Real Life
Tags: celebrities children fundraising research
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While I posted yesterday that Nick Jonas was in New York Sunday for the Diabetes Research Institute's Carnival for a Cure, I didn't mention much about the event itself. Billed as "New York City's largest indoor carnival," the event was a cross between a street fair and an arcade, aimed largely at the under-twelve crowd. Three walls of the Metropolitan Pavillion were lined with inflatable mazes, slides, and bounce rooms, and a human-powered "mechanical bull". Several street-fair games-of-skill, aimed again at the under-twelve set, occupied a block of canopies in the center of the room. Prize tickets were given to the winners, and by the end of the afternoon almost every family there was wrangling multiple shopping bags of toys. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: glucometers measurement accuracy Test Strips
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My relationship has changed, and I'm not happy. Over the past three weeks, I've lost so much trust in what I'm being told that I'm looking at "playing the field" again.
The relationship I'm talking about is the one with my glucometer.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows In the News Real Life
Tags: artificial pancreas blood glucose management blood glucose testing CGMS data analysis data management glucometers Logging
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Yesterday, I discussed how I'd like diabetes healthcare providers and the healthcare industry to better use existing tests and technologies, and how I believe our current crop of devices and programs might be developed in the near-term future. Today I'm going to discuss items that will take a bit longer to develop and get through FDA approval, or which may take technological and medical breakthroughs to bring to fruition.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Highs & Lows Fitness Real Life
Tags: activity bicycling blood glucose testing exercise glucometers hot weather new friends Test Strips
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One more Sunday up bright and early, missing most of the final day of the Tour de France to join the shop ride over at our usual Virginia Beach retailer. I arrived on site with enough time to give a Team Type 1 water bottle and set of team cards a good home with Matt-with-two-"t's", the type 1 rider who wore his 2011 Tour de Cure fundraising jersey last Sunday. It's always good to find swag a good home... and then there was also the surprised-and-very-happy look on Matt's face when I delivered the goods. Then again, several of the regulars thought we were heading home Sunday, rather than today -- so the surprise may have been as much that of me showing up, ready to ride, than anything else.
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Categories: Type 2 Highs & Lows Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: blood glucose management blood glucose testing change glucometers Old Age parents with diabetes television
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The topic for July's DSMA blog carnival is "diabetes technology", springing from a discussion in which we dissed the downsides of our Borgified selves and collated a wishlist of things we'd like the diabetes device industry to provide us with. Topping the list were more accurate glucometers, more reliable CGMs, sensors, and infusion sets, more accurate (smart?) insulins, and affordable (read: under ten cents each) glucose test strips. Somewhat further in dreamland were noninvasive testing methods (tattoos, retina scanners, "mood" watches, and so on).
The more interesting question is that of disillusioning those who think some of this technology wishlist is already here.
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Categories: Type 2 In the News Real Life
Tags: diabetes blogs diabetes supplies glucometers insurance mail order
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"Freaking the 'danes": In fandom, the deliberate exhibition of extreme fannish behavior before "mundanes" (non-fans) for the specific purpose of eliciting incomprehension and social discomfort. (See: bear-baiting.)
With eight separate phone numbers registered to the two members of this household, it's not surprising that -- despite those numbers' presence on the National Do Not Call Registry -- we get more than our share of telephone solicitations. Most of the time, they're phishing scams telling us we can "lower your interest rates" if we give them our banking information immediately; the rest of the time, they're split between trying to get us to change our telephone, Internet, television, gas, and electricity providers.
Until yesterday.
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Categories: In the News Real Life
Tags: Cell phones data analysis education glucometers meters money new technology one touch Test Strips
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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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