They say that necessity is the mother of invention. Such is the case with Carolyn Jäger, a 36-year-old New Hampshire-based wife and mom, who grew up with a younger sister with type 1 diabetes and was diagnosed herself at age 13 — on her mom’s birthday (ouch!). Carolyn’s mom designed homemade meter cases for Carolyn and her sister, Susan, but it wasn’t until after many years of working as a retail buyer that Carolyn was…
We had the opportunity to meet a lot of small business people at this year’s AADE conference, in addition to those from the mega-huge Pharma companies. One company we spotted was GlucoBrands, a Florida-based outfit that’s been making the conference rounds this summer with its GlucoPouch, a new fruity glucose gel. I had a chance to try my sample on the plane back from Vegas when I hit 63 mg/dl right after take-off. Although I…
By AmyT on December 30, 2010
I’m not sure if this qualifies as an official meme, but lots of bloggers like to mark the end of the year by listing out the first lines of one blog post from each month — which makes for a fascinating little “snapshot” of what happens on any given blog. Love it! So here goes —
Favorite first ‘Mine lines from 2010:
January – “Over the holidays, hubby and I managed to slip away for…
