Marie 2
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Yes, Thank you @Robinredbreast . It was a wonderful idea!
Yes, Thank you @Robinredbreast . It was a wonderful idea!
Hi all, hi Antje. Every morning I put all the needles I need for the day in the case for my bolus pen. I'll use one for bolus straight away and I get out my basal pen and put a needle beside it till I take it an hour or two later. So what's left in the case are the needles for my remaining basal and bolus for the day. I didn't used to change needles every time; I started to do this when injections started to hurt more and I got worse at remembering what I'd taken. Phone reminders are okay but I'm quite capable of turning the alarm off if I'm in the middle of something and without the needles I don't always remember if I've injected, especially basal. Good luck with whatever system you find works for you!Thought I'd found the perfect solution for double checking if I had taken my basal yet or not. I simply put enough needles in the little box my basal pen is in to keep me until Sunday. New week, new needles, easy.
Worked fine too, I have counted the days by counting needles every evening when taking my basal, smugly thinking how smart I am for finding this solution.
Until just now that is. I came up a needle short.
I'm very sure I hadn't already injected tonight, and I've been running on the high side today and last night, so not likely I took double yesterday. So where did that needle go?
For now, I'm going to assume a needle escaped from the box last night and is now somewhere in my bed, between the mattress and the wall, or wherever the cats took it when playing with it.
This was my thinking for my basal, except to do it weekly, counting to 7 can't be too hard (or so I thought).Hi all, hi Antje. Every morning I put all the needles I need for the day in the case for my bolus pen.
What version ox Xdrip+ are you using? It has to be the build after Feb 7th for Watlaa to work with it. Also make sure your Watch is on version 0.5.1. You need to reset your MM and make sure your bluetooth is turned off on your phone.....then connect Watlaa to the MM and then turn your bluetooth back on your phone and on Xdrip do a bluetooth search and you should see Watlaa One on your scan results....press on the Watlaa and Bobs your Uncle
Good morning everyone. I missed out yesterday, so belated happy birthday Stars to Star Robin. A brilliant idea, is it the most used thread?
And talk about the watlaa, missed that too. I don’t use xdrip, just watlaa and LibreLink and find the watlaa vibration will wake me in the night. However, the graphs I get now don’t seem as informative as the Libre Reader or Tomato, but that may just be me adjusting to different formats and presentations. I have the phone in the bedroom, but watlaa’s bright enough to see the time, bloods, arrow and graph on the watchface.
Tomato sometimes crashed, which wasn’t helpful. Watlaa’s not perfect, it’s a bit touch happy, but it’s great to have a standalone on my wrist, though I might not be as happy with it if I hadn’t downloaded LibreLink at the start of the lockdown-lite.
I spent a lot of yesterday doing distance part-time job stuff and communicating with people, calendar in hand, working out safe intervals for things to be carried out. Younger daughter helps to make things work from a distance. Poor lass has cut her fingers while glass fusing, on knuckles, her right hand, so her happy making stuff when not working is at a pause. She was testing out ideas before making a present for us to give the lovely neighbour who’s shopped for us. Feeling a bit guilty.
Have a really good day everyone, even if it’s a bit of a soggy one.