Fingers gripping the steering wheel, a dizziness setting in — with a knowledge that the cold sweats and soon-blurring vision are on the way.
Whatever the reason for the plunging blood sugar, the reality in that moment is that you are going low and need to do something about it. To pull over. To check. To eat something.
But as sometimes happens when floating in a hypoglycemic daze, you can’t bring yourself to take action even…
Topics touching diabetes never go away, but many of them seem to get sidelined at times. We often ask ourselves, “Whatever happened to…?” In this case, training police to better deal with people with diabetes (PWDs) who might be acting irrationally due to a blood sugar low? Today, fellow D-blogger and journalist Mike Hoskins joins us to report on the state of affairs (spoiler alert: it’s frustrating!).
Special to the ‘Mine by Michael Hoskins
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You asked and we answered! We also asked and you answered — with lots more great questions for our new diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
This week, Wil takes on the DMV and diabetes, and what to do when your insurance isn’t cooperating.
{Do YOU need help navigating life with diabetes? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Rose from Florida, type 1, writes: I am…
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A couple of years ago, at the ADA Conference, Medtronic’s booth featured a car equipped with glucose-sensing technology right in the dashboard. We all giggled. Cool idea… sort of. Right?
And what do you know? Yesterday, Ford Motor Co. and Medtronic actually unveiled a prototype of this system (!), enabled by Ford’s SYNC technology, a sophisticated Microsoft-based digital interface that lets drivers and passengers control their cell phones and MP3 players via wireless connections and…
The third and final Grand Prize winner of this year’s 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge is Barbara McClatchey, mother of teenage boy with diabetes living in Collierville, Tennessee. She’s been a computer programmer for many years, and she and her husband both work for FedEx Corp. She’s also been heavily involved in her local JDRF chapter for 11 years, serving on the Board of Directors for the past seven.
Barb was honored for her concept called…