The Len Ganley Stance
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Hello.
Had major issues this past year or so with T1 diabetes. Got to the stage where my blood sugar reading can be about 2.0 and I don't realise until it's too late. Collapsed twice in work near end of last year and paramedics came out. Damaged shoulders badly. Collapsed in city centre and train station numerous times. Eventually had to quit work and my wife became my carer. Rare that a day passes without a hypo. Try to avoid it and I end up at the other end of the scale. Infuriating.
Had a Libre. Great bit of kit but nobody's perfect and the last time the missus went out I was KO'd on the kitchen floor for 3 hours before she came home and gave me the emergency jag in the butt.
So I got a call from the diabetic centre on Friday, "Is your phone reasonably new and do you want a CGM?"
Yes, it is. Of course I do.
Went for training this morning and seen it working. It's what I need. Try to install the app on my phone and it's not having it. Very kindly Dexcom have restricted it to the most expensive phones they can find! I want to resume my life but this is a massive hurdle. There's a couple of older phones on the list but I have a contract that's 3/4 of the way through, my disposable income is £10 a week and I just can't afford it. My wife has an Apple but there's a battery issue with it, it lasts about half an hour when using it and I can't afford to fix that either.
I'm not totally awful regards gadgets. Can I force the G6 to use one of the other apps instead? My own Android's 64GB and it's at least half-empty. I need the Dexcom to work for my own good and I need it working before the hospital kicks me off the thing for having a poverty phone. Help!
Had major issues this past year or so with T1 diabetes. Got to the stage where my blood sugar reading can be about 2.0 and I don't realise until it's too late. Collapsed twice in work near end of last year and paramedics came out. Damaged shoulders badly. Collapsed in city centre and train station numerous times. Eventually had to quit work and my wife became my carer. Rare that a day passes without a hypo. Try to avoid it and I end up at the other end of the scale. Infuriating.
Had a Libre. Great bit of kit but nobody's perfect and the last time the missus went out I was KO'd on the kitchen floor for 3 hours before she came home and gave me the emergency jag in the butt.
So I got a call from the diabetic centre on Friday, "Is your phone reasonably new and do you want a CGM?"
Yes, it is. Of course I do.
Went for training this morning and seen it working. It's what I need. Try to install the app on my phone and it's not having it. Very kindly Dexcom have restricted it to the most expensive phones they can find! I want to resume my life but this is a massive hurdle. There's a couple of older phones on the list but I have a contract that's 3/4 of the way through, my disposable income is £10 a week and I just can't afford it. My wife has an Apple but there's a battery issue with it, it lasts about half an hour when using it and I can't afford to fix that either.
I'm not totally awful regards gadgets. Can I force the G6 to use one of the other apps instead? My own Android's 64GB and it's at least half-empty. I need the Dexcom to work for my own good and I need it working before the hospital kicks me off the thing for having a poverty phone. Help!
