By
AmyT on
September 10, 2010
Kerri’s list of diabetes moving fun got me thinking: I haven’t updated you all on the renovation scene and hotel life yet. So here’s my take.
You know you’re diabetic and moving out for a home remodel when:
Clearing out your bedroom for construction makes you realize you own more boxes full of medical wipes, test strip vials, expired prescription meds, insulin pump supplies, and various diabetic carry cases than anything else (with the exception…
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The relative accuracy of blood glucose meters has of course been in the spotlight of late, since the FDA held a hearing to “crack down” on this issue last Fall. Funny, but I always assumed this had more to do with the technology inside the meter than the test strips themselves. Silly me.
One of this year’s buzzwords at the ADA Conference in Orlando last week was the “PQQ Enzyme” {glucose dehydrogenase (GDH)-pyrroloquino-linequinone (PQQ)} –…
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We switched health insurance providers again a few months ago, because of a new position my husband took on. I braced myself for the fallout. Despite the fact that I got an early start on informing our various physicians and pharmacies that we’d be switching, it’s once again been an extremely bumpy road — er, more of ridiculous time-suck, if you want to get particular about it.
1) Various doctor’s offices insisted that were “still…
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By
AmyT on
March 28, 2009
Yesterday we received a letter from Abbott Diabetes Care via certified mail. My husband even had to sign for it. What could it be? Did I win a prize? Owe them money? Were they offering me a job?
BEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPP… none of the above. It appears that several batches of FreeStyle and FreeStyle Lite test strips have been inadvertently shipped out to customers before being approved for external distribution.
Seven different lots “have the potential to…
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