Althose that use insulin pumps must praise technology in some way. Being able to deliver insulin with a click of a button, not having to worry about giving needles every single day. Same goes with meters, it seems companies are producing meters every month - getting better, cuter, smaller, faster, and the new phenomenon the ability to upload the information to the computer using something as simple as a USB.
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That is what I love - I love that even though I have to think about diabetes as far as checking my blood sugar and giving insulin I don't have to do the math often, I don't have to write anything down - technology is assisting me in dealing with diabetes. Unfortunately, at times I feel like the medical professionals rather us do differently. Track things by hand, weigh things with measuring cups, calculate things without our pumps.
I realize that when looking at someone's blood sugars/insulin dosages it can be hard to do if you're having to look at a meters reading that aren't connected to the pump, then having to look at the pump readings that may or may not have the blood sugars recorded. However, that one hour of annoying-ness for the diabetes team, doesn't justify every second of a diabetic daily life having to tediously do things twice when something like the USB meter can record it all on the computer. Personally, I don't have time to keep a journal, that is what my meter has time to do.
Of course I feel bad when I am sitting with the team trying to figure out what goes with what, but when I think about how much I accomplish in a day not including diabetes practices, I cannot even imagine choosing what I believe to be a difficult way to manage my diabetes. I check my blood sugar, it records in my meter, I go to my pump, give myself insulin for whatever I am eating and carry on. To me that's my way of managing.
Kayla
I don't care for the small meters, as a matter of fact I hate them. I also don't use a pump, but I use a syringe not a pen. I have recorded my urine sugars and now my blood sugars since I was diagnosed in 1965 at the age of 5 along with writing down how my insulin I have and where I inject it.
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