Snuggled up in my bed under the warm covers, all I want to do is keep my eyes closed.
But, no. My darn insulin pump and continuous glucose monitor (CGM) just won’t shut up and let me sleep. Both vibrate and beep incessantly, reminding me that I’m low and nagging me to wake up and do something about it.
Neither device can actually intervene or do anything to prevent these lows (or highs) from happening.…
From the “crap no one ever tells you about with diabetes” file, comes:
Dissect the word with me for a moment:
Lipo — OK, that sounds like weight loss surgery.
Hyper — Yes, we often are. How else could we juggle work, kids, exercise, myriad lab tests and doctor’s appointments, non-stop carb-counting and dosing adjustments, etc., etc. and still do our taxes?
Trophy — Do I get one, for putting up with all this diabetes…
Neal Kaufman is not only the husband of famed endocrinologist and Medtronic exec Fran Kaufman; he’s also a diabetes guru of sorts in his own right. He’s an experienced clinician and educator who founded a company called DPS Health (Diabetes Prevention Source), that offers an intense coaching program using technology + real-life interventions to help people with pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes improve their lifestyles. Like us, he’s extremely interested in all sorts of D-technologies…
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Anyone else think this when realizing it was time to “spring forward” with the start of Daylight Savings Time once again?
Yup, it was time to bump the clocks forward an hour again this Sunday morning at 2 a.m., along with adjusting all our glucose meters, insulin pumps and CGM settings! As always, we appreciate the humor of our time-conscious cartoonist Terry Keelan, a fellow type 1 living in Southern California who…
Almost two years after getting regulatory OK to sell a new partially-disposable insulin pump in the U.S., a California company has changed the name of its product just before it hits the market in April.
The Asante Pearl will now be known as the Asante Snap, a pretty spot-on name since it’s not only short and snappy (pun intended!) but also accurately describes the design concept of this new “click-and-connect” insulin pump!
Yes, it pops…
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