ron45
Member
- Messages
- 12
- Location
- Central New Mexico
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Insulin
- Dislikes
- I am an old but card carrying hippie so the things I don't like are too numerous to mention. I am not a patriot of any kind. My country continuously shames me and themselves.
I bought a lancet device @walmart the other day because we keep misplacing them temporarily. Looking thru the instructions I noticed a small section on alternate testing sites. Jennifer has only ever used the fingertips and they are getting pretty worn. Someone told her to only do it there so that's what she does.
Other than what her endocrinologist/dilettante told her, she has had very little input on changes in equipment** or treatment. She is not internet literate other than emails and watching the Hung and the Breathless. So I'm trying to fill in some of the knowledge gaps as best I can.
** She's had several pumps and sensors...... if a sensor can't communicate with the pump both are worthless another than fewer punctures to the skin when hung on a brittle diabetic.
Does anyone use other sites to draw blood for testing. What a barbaric practice. If a dog can tell when someone's sugar is low you'd think someone from the new field of science for greed would figure out a way to get rich on a device that uses breath or saliva.
Ron
Other than what her endocrinologist/dilettante told her, she has had very little input on changes in equipment** or treatment. She is not internet literate other than emails and watching the Hung and the Breathless. So I'm trying to fill in some of the knowledge gaps as best I can.
** She's had several pumps and sensors...... if a sensor can't communicate with the pump both are worthless another than fewer punctures to the skin when hung on a brittle diabetic.
Does anyone use other sites to draw blood for testing. What a barbaric practice. If a dog can tell when someone's sugar is low you'd think someone from the new field of science for greed would figure out a way to get rich on a device that uses breath or saliva.
Ron