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From the "Don't try this at home, kids!" file...
I lost my main Accuchek Mobile meter, and when I broke out the backup meter from the packaging, good as new, it was dead on arrival.
Today I got on to Roche and they confirmed the spare meter was in fact dead. They are sending me 2 new ones but it will be a few days before they get here.
Meanwhile, my spare-spare meter and my spare-spare-spare meter, both AccuChek Compact Plus, are out of strips. I've used what strips I had left over the weekend, and these strips have been off my prescription since I switched over to the new fangled, all singing all dancing Mobile.
The upshot of all this is that I have been running on CGM without calibration now for the last 24 hours and I'm likely to be doing so for at least a total of 72 hours before I get my hands on a meter. I could go into the loft and see if there is some ancient meter up there, but the strips will be years out of date and I think I had a chuck out at some point anyway. And there are spiders.
If I was not skint I would go and buy some Compact Plus drums from the chemist, but I am a bit Jurassic Park guvnah, as we say here up on Spikey Island.
So I suppose the Lesson Learned is either to keep 3-4 meters of the same type, or if they are multiple types, to keep multiple strip prescriptions active. We live and learn.
I'm very glad that this CGM sensor is well into its 4th week and was tracking to the fingerprick meter very reliably. Hopefully it will see me through to Wednesday or whenever the new meter shows up.
I lost my main Accuchek Mobile meter, and when I broke out the backup meter from the packaging, good as new, it was dead on arrival.
Today I got on to Roche and they confirmed the spare meter was in fact dead. They are sending me 2 new ones but it will be a few days before they get here.
Meanwhile, my spare-spare meter and my spare-spare-spare meter, both AccuChek Compact Plus, are out of strips. I've used what strips I had left over the weekend, and these strips have been off my prescription since I switched over to the new fangled, all singing all dancing Mobile.
The upshot of all this is that I have been running on CGM without calibration now for the last 24 hours and I'm likely to be doing so for at least a total of 72 hours before I get my hands on a meter. I could go into the loft and see if there is some ancient meter up there, but the strips will be years out of date and I think I had a chuck out at some point anyway. And there are spiders.
If I was not skint I would go and buy some Compact Plus drums from the chemist, but I am a bit Jurassic Park guvnah, as we say here up on Spikey Island.
So I suppose the Lesson Learned is either to keep 3-4 meters of the same type, or if they are multiple types, to keep multiple strip prescriptions active. We live and learn.
I'm very glad that this CGM sensor is well into its 4th week and was tracking to the fingerprick meter very reliably. Hopefully it will see me through to Wednesday or whenever the new meter shows up.
