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…
I’ll admit, for the first year after my diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes, I was almost afraid to leave the house. It was scary not knowing what might happen while I was away from home, and wondering whether I’d have the right supplies at hand in a moment of need.
Obviously, my life is a lot different now. We do take family trips regularly, including an annual sojourn to Germany every summer. I also fly…
That’s what it feels like, anyway. A millennium of skin malfunctions over here that are making my diabetes and gluten intolerance genuinely intolerable of late! (A TMI post? Read at your own risk)
The latest bout of troubles kicked off this summer when I took the new Abbott Navigator CGM sensor for a test drive. The very latex-y adhesive used to adhere that product to the skin did not get along with my skin at…