Need help navigating life with diabetes? You can always Ask D’Mine! Welcome again to our weekly Q&A column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil has some advice on what to do if your insulin pump breaks down and also how to keep insulin cool when it’s very hot outside.
{Got your own questions? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Lisa, type 1 from New Mexico, asks: Why is it…
Are you ready for the Readi Pak? No, not the Ready Pac salads. And not Redi-Pak defibrillator electrodes, either. The diabetes Readi Pak is a new “Go-Bag” that features a large main compartment with a removable diabetes accessory case that lives in its own hidden pocket.
This isn’t the latest thing from any of the dozens of existing diabetes case and bag makers. No, this new bag is the brain child of Sanofi, the giant…
Like most in the Diabetes Community, we carry around a lot of baggage, not only emotionally but physically — with all the supplies we need to have with us at all times. And so the we love the Diabetes Social Media Advocacy (DSMA) Blog Carnival topic this month: all about your diabetes bag or gear!
We were asked to post photos of what we schlep, and expand on the picture(s) by answering any or all of…
Does your insulin always come packed carefully in ice? Or perhaps not anymore? Medical insurers, notably CVS/Caremark, are cutting costs by skimping on packaging used to keep insulin safe during shipping. And a bunch of PWDs are mad as hell about it.
T1 writer and advocate Riva Greenberg wrote to me not long ago saying:
“What they are doing is cutting costs by not packing insulin in cold gel packs anymore if they determine the…