A number of you asked about the OmniPod, so here you go: Below please find the third video in our Liberty Medical series on Insulin Pumping. This one’s all about “going wireless” — a personal fetish of mine, as you may know.
Again, this may not be ground-breaking news to you Type A-Personality Type 1 diabetics out there, but it IS new information for many PWDs, who’ve never had the good fortune to be…
It still ain’t Wilford Brimley. Here I am in the second of our 3-part series on pumping. This one gives you an overview of different pump models.
When I watch these clips, I find that I look a little stiff here. Not nearly as smooth as, say… Nicole Johnson Baker (I wish). But hey, we started taping at 8am East Coast time, which was 5 o’clock in the morning for me. I’m lucky…
I joked with the cameraman that it was the best video he ever made about urine tests.
OK, not all the video shorts I taped lately in collaboration with medical supply giant Liberty Medical (yes, the folks with that legendary Wilford Brimley commercial) mentioned the joy of urine tests. Our topics included “what is an insulin pump?,” “intro to pump features,” “new wireless diabetes systems,” “how to use your glucose meter data to improve your…
An entirely different sort of update on FDA actions today: did anyone take notice that the FDA recently issued a “no objection” letter regarding stevia-based sweeteners? This is a an historic move because for many years, the FDA has fought against the US use of stevia, an herb-based sweetener (sugar substitute) “that does not adversely affect blood sugar levels — a boon for diabetics and hypoglycemics!”
Stevia had the misfortune of being relegated to the…
So far, so good for these first few days of 2009. I’ve pulled out my detailed logging sheets and made a resolution to pinpoint exactly why my BGs are all over the map. Just committing to that feels good.
I may have mentioned that my glucose control slipped into the unacceptable these last few weeks as I’ve been riding the wave of the holidays: bit by bit allowing myself more carbs here and there, and…