Type 1 and sight loss - anybody?

Antje77 said:

In addition to that, the phone app has a text to speech function, and the app works as soon as you unlock the phone, no menu's to work through before testing.

I thought of another use of your phone as well last night. I had a very small insect crawling in my bed and I wanted to count its legs to see if it was a spider or a tick. Being 43, I have the perfect age to insist I do not need reading glasses, those legs were simply too small to count.
So I took a picture of it and zoomed in. Clearly 6 legs, not what I wanted to see but that's another problem.

Would that work for you to read the numbers on your insulin pen?

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Juicyj said:

Hi Di, my nurse has recommended the Gluco RX meter as it talks, however the sticking point is getting blood onto the test strip so although some help it’s not a perfect solution, she said the libre can be linked to an app to speak to you and tell you your reading, if you are partially sighted you should get funding for this and this would be a much better solution for testing when out and about and hopefully give you some more freedom.

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NicoleC1971 said:

I am partially sighted due to retinopathy and used to need my husband to change my pump tubing which involved checking for bubbles. Blood tests were fine but I now have an FSL with phone reader which is easy to see and my main reason for having a Roche pump is that it has a cartridge system and \I can make the font bigger on the display screen when programming the basal amounts or taking up a bolus. Prior to the pump I listened to clicks on the pen.
BTw I feel fortunate that my sight loss may be less than others e.g. cannot drive but able to do most other things and use magnifiiers if not. For example I can see the first 2 lines of a sight chart (drivers apparently need to see the 6th).

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