Guest guest Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 Sometimes it is possible to feel you are going iinto reaction, but aactually your sugar is just dropping rapidly. The problem here is that it may be dropping from a high normal to a low normal, but yo feel like you are going into reaction. So when you take the glucose tab-it puts it up even above normal. Re: Dropping sugar level Hi Bill: I agree with Mike here that it is best to do a test if you think that your sugar is low before eating a glucose tablet. there have been a couple of times within the last month where I thought my sugar was very low. A test revealed that my sugar was in fact still very much within the normal range which makes me wonder if I have had Diabetes longer than first thought. If I had eaten a glucose tablet I would have felt better for sure because my sugar level would have risen, perhaps back to an unhealthy level. Becky and Cassidy, Pilot Dog, Poodle maddpoodle27@... Re: Dropping sugar level > Mike, > > I can only assume that my bg was actually dropping since taking a glucose > tablet picked me up again in 15 minutes or less. Had my bg been high, the > tablet would have done no good. > > I don't know if it will always be the case, but so far I've been able to > tell the difference between a dropping sugar and one that is rather high. > Too low a bg and I feel kind of cold, out of it, and can't think straight. > When the sugar is way too high, I simply feel tired and washed out but > have > never noticed any other symptoms with it, yet. I know that last year when > I > was at a party where all we had was pizza, I ate two slices of it and by > the > time I got home, I was wiped out and my sugar was well over 200. (Lesson > to > Bill, don't do that again.) > > It almost seems more like the sudden drop has something to do with very > rapidly changing temperatures, but I don't have enough information to know > why that would cause the reaction I described. I will be discussing this > with my doctor the next time I see him to see if he has any ideas. > > Bill Powers > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 , Very well put that the actual sugar may be higher than " normal " and that it may be the rapid drop causing the problem, but that still doesn't solve the mystery since by the time I got home 15 minutes later from grocery shopping my sugar was normal, in fact it was something like 101. I do know that it's very easy to think you have a normal sugar when it's actually high, I just don't know if that really was the case here for sure. I do know that if my sugar is over 140 (obviously out of normal range), I can feel it, and if it goes below 75 I can feel that. If this happens again I will try to be even more diligent at picking the episode apart to see what is causing it. Bill Powers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Bill, You will find, when the Sensocard Blood Meter becomes available in the States, you will be able to put it in your top pocket of your shirt, as it is that small. As most of you will know, I am a user of this Sensocard Plus blood meter, and also, being that I'm usually involved with the publicity for this meter, I am in regular contact with Bill Cunningham, who is the main distributor in the UK. As soon as I receive any updates from him, to when it will become available in the States, I will forward it on to you all! Rowe Re: Dropping sugar level > Becky, > > Unfortunately it's not always possible to take a glucometer everywhere I go, > like to a grocery store, for example, which is where the last episode > occurred. Though I wasn't able to test the BG level right there, yet took a > glucose tablet, when I got home I tested my BG level and it was indeed > within normal limits. So if it had been high for some reason, it wasn't > within about half an hour from the onset of that episode. I surely would > have thought that the sugar would go high and I thought about how I might > feel better when the sugar reached an abnormal high as can happen, but from > this experience I can only deduce the sugar was too low and had been > bolstered by the glucose tablet. If another such episode should happen, I > will have to pay more attention to details and tell my doctor about that > episode, too. Meanwhile, this remains a mystery. I guess stranger things > have happened though. > > Bill Powers > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Hi , Since you seem to be involved with this meter could you talk to them about getting a chip in it for talking so the totally blind will be able to use it without help. Sometimes we don't always have some one around to read the meter for us. That is why the Acuchek voicemate is so popular. Dee Re: Dropping sugar level Bill, You will find, when the Sensocard Blood Meter becomes available in the States, you will be able to put it in your top pocket of your shirt, as it is that small. As most of you will know, I am a user of this Sensocard Plus blood meter, and also, being that I'm usually involved with the publicity for this meter, I am in regular contact with Bill Cunningham, who is the main distributor in the UK. As soon as I receive any updates from him, to when it will become available in the States, I will forward it on to you all! Rowe Re: Dropping sugar level > Becky, > > Unfortunately it's not always possible to take a glucometer everywhere I go, > like to a grocery store, for example, which is where the last episode > occurred. Though I wasn't able to test the BG level right there, yet took a > glucose tablet, when I got home I tested my BG level and it was indeed > within normal limits. So if it had been high for some reason, it wasn't > within about half an hour from the onset of that episode. I surely would > have thought that the sugar would go high and I thought about how I might > feel better when the sugar reached an abnormal high as can happen, but from > this experience I can only deduce the sugar was too low and had been > bolstered by the glucose tablet. If another such episode should happen, I > will have to pay more attention to details and tell my doctor about that > episode, too. Meanwhile, this remains a mystery. I guess stranger things > have happened though. > > Bill Powers > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 , Thanks for your response about the new glucose monitor, Sensorcard if I read it. Oh it would be so nice if meters were all portable so they could be carried into places they're not taken to now. My glucose meter does fit in a nice little carry case but it's still bulky and to carry it around would be combersome at best, not to mention what you would do with the lancet and test strip when you are done with taking the reading out in public. Certainly we could all dream for a day when we could take a reading without lancets and test strips, and the unit would talk to us, but then that's still a ways off in the real world. Mister Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Dee, What I don't get is why it's so difficult to have a talking glucometer. The talking part of the technology is already there, and we already have talking thermometers and such, so why the difficulty with talking glucometers is beyond me. Probably it's about money and licensing of technology. And then when we do get something it's 10 times the actual expense because the market allows the blind (or insert the infirmity of your choice here) to be gouged because " you're a very small minority. " But we're a growing minority aren't we? Oh well, off my soapbox, I need it to do laundry. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Hi Bill, I agree with you completely. It just doesn't make since for them not have some talking when they have it already for things. Yah! everything that helps us is always so much higher. Maybe someday they will realize that we are just as important and buy things just as the sighted do. Oh well, it is about time for my break so I had better get off of here. Dee Re: Dropping sugar level Dee, What I don't get is why it's so difficult to have a talking glucometer. The talking part of the technology is already there, and we already have talking thermometers and such, so why the difficulty with talking glucometers is beyond me. Probably it's about money and licensing of technology. And then when we do get something it's 10 times the actual expense because the market allows the blind (or insert the infirmity of your choice here) to be gouged because " you're a very small minority. " But we're a growing minority aren't we? Oh well, off my soapbox, I need it to do laundry. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Hi Bill, I test and do shots in public all the time, and I just have a pouch in the meter case that I put used test strips, lancets, and insulin pen needles into so that I can dispose of them when I get home. I don't change the lancet every time I test, though. I don't use a talking meter but it would be nice to have one, since I can't always see the screen on mine and sometimes have to ask for help reading it. Unfortunately being in Canada it will probably take even longer for the new talking meters to get here than it will for them to get to the States, but at least they're coming out with modern ones, hopefully they'll work well. Jen Re: Dropping sugar level > , > > Thanks for your response about the new glucose monitor, Sensorcard if I > read > it. Oh it would be so nice if meters were all portable so they could be > carried into places they're not taken to now. My glucose meter does fit in > a > nice little carry case but it's still bulky and to carry it around would > be > combersome at best, not to mention what you would do with the lancet and > test strip when you are done with taking the reading out in public. > Certainly we could all dream for a day when we could take a reading > without > lancets and test strips, and the unit would talk to us, but then that's > still a ways off in the real world. > > Mister Bill > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 The SensoCard *does* talk. > Hi , > > Since you seem to be involved with this meter could you talk to them about getting a chip in it for talking so the totally blind will be able to use it without help. > > Sometimes we don't always have some one around to read the meter for us. That is why the Acuchek voicemate is so popular. > > Dee > > > > > Re: Dropping sugar level > > > Bill, > > You will find, when the Sensocard Blood Meter becomes available in the > States, you will be able to put it in your top pocket of your shirt, as it > is that small. > > As most of you will know, I am a user of this Sensocard Plus blood meter, > and also, being that I'm usually involved with the publicity for this meter, > I am in regular contact with Bill Cunningham, who is the main distributor in > the UK. As soon as I receive any updates from him, to when it will become > available in the States, I will forward it on to you all! > > Rowe > > > > > Re: Dropping sugar level > > >> Becky, >> >> Unfortunately it's not always possible to take a glucometer everywhere I > go, >> like to a grocery store, for example, which is where the last episode >> occurred. Though I wasn't able to test the BG level right there, yet took > a >> glucose tablet, when I got home I tested my BG level and it was indeed >> within normal limits. So if it had been high for some reason, it wasn't >> within about half an hour from the onset of that episode. I surely would >> have thought that the sugar would go high and I thought about how I might >> feel better when the sugar reached an abnormal high as can happen, but > from >> this experience I can only deduce the sugar was too low and had been >> bolstered by the glucose tablet. If another such episode should happen, I >> will have to pay more attention to details and tell my doctor about that >> episode, too. Meanwhile, this remains a mystery. I guess stranger things >> have happened though. >> >> Bill Powers >> >> >> >> >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Dee, The Sensocard Plus, is a talking Blood meter. I have been using it for nearly a year now. It had its official UK launch in May of last year, but because I was involved with its trials, I was given this meter in April. Rowe Re: Dropping sugar level > > > > Becky, > > > > Unfortunately it's not always possible to take a glucometer everywhere I > go, > > like to a grocery store, for example, which is where the last episode > > occurred. Though I wasn't able to test the BG level right there, yet took > a > > glucose tablet, when I got home I tested my BG level and it was indeed > > within normal limits. So if it had been high for some reason, it wasn't > > within about half an hour from the onset of that episode. I surely would > > have thought that the sugar would go high and I thought about how I might > > feel better when the sugar reached an abnormal high as can happen, but > from > > this experience I can only deduce the sugar was too low and had been > > bolstered by the glucose tablet. If another such episode should happen, I > > will have to pay more attention to details and tell my doctor about that > > episode, too. Meanwhile, this remains a mystery. I guess stranger things > > have happened though. > > > > Bill Powers > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 (1) It's a glucose meter, not a " glucometer " -- that trademark has been registered by Bayer. (2) " allowed " and " gouged " are loaded words. What tax would you wish to see raised in order to subsidize devices that don't make sense financially? We can't even get Single-payer health insurance in this country. <g> Mike > Dee, > > What I don't get is why it's so difficult to have a talking glucometer. The > talking part of the technology is already there, and we already have talking > thermometers and such, so why the difficulty with talking glucometers is > beyond me. Probably it's about money and licensing of technology. And then > when we do get something it's 10 times the actual expense because the market > allows the blind (or insert the infirmity of your choice here) to be gouged > because " you're a very small minority. " But we're a growing minority aren't > we? Oh well, off my soapbox, I need it to do laundry. > > > Bill > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 The SensoCard still uses lancets and test strips. Just take a pill bottle and put the used ones in it. Where there's a will, there's a way. I must confess to becoming mildly peeved at the complaints about bulk of meters. Yes, the VoiceMate is larger than a meter for the sighted. Yes, the One-touch requires two units. But I suspect that most of us who complain would find excuses not to take a small meter out in public, too. Probably wouldn't fit the decor of out outfits! Mike > , > > Thanks for your response about the new glucose monitor, Sensorcard if I read > it. Oh it would be so nice if meters were all portable so they could be > carried into places they're not taken to now. My glucose meter does fit in a > nice little carry case but it's still bulky and to carry it around would be > combersome at best, not to mention what you would do with the lancet and > test strip when you are done with taking the reading out in public. > Certainly we could all dream for a day when we could take a reading without > lancets and test strips, and the unit would talk to us, but then that's > still a ways off in the real world. > > Mister Bill > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Hi Mike, That is great. I just hope it gets here andis not too explensive. Dee Re: Dropping sugar level > > > Bill, > > You will find, when the Sensocard Blood Meter becomes available in the > States, you will be able to put it in your top pocket of your shirt, as it > is that small. > > As most of you will know, I am a user of this Sensocard Plus blood meter, > and also, being that I'm usually involved with the publicity for this meter, > I am in regular contact with Bill Cunningham, who is the main distributor in > the UK. As soon as I receive any updates from him, to when it will become > available in the States, I will forward it on to you all! > > Rowe > > > > > Re: Dropping sugar level > > >> Becky, >> >> Unfortunately it's not always possible to take a glucometer everywhere I > go, >> like to a grocery store, for example, which is where the last episode >> occurred. Though I wasn't able to test the BG level right there, yet took > a >> glucose tablet, when I got home I tested my BG level and it was indeed >> within normal limits. So if it had been high for some reason, it wasn't >> within about half an hour from the onset of that episode. I surely would >> have thought that the sugar would go high and I thought about how I might >> feel better when the sugar reached an abnormal high as can happen, but > from >> this experience I can only deduce the sugar was too low and had been >> bolstered by the glucose tablet. If another such episode should happen, I >> will have to pay more attention to details and tell my doctor about that >> episode, too. Meanwhile, this remains a mystery. I guess stranger things >> have happened though. >> >> Bill Powers >> >> >> >> >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 The only reason we have many talking devices now is that the firms producing them haven't done their marketing homework and haven't figured out that most sighted persons *hate* talking machines! So every time one talking device goes off the market, some budding human factors or design engineer thinks a talking device would be cool and an innocent company buys the idea and produces it -- for about six months -- until it realizes that it isn't making money. The only reason the VoiceMate is here is because Lilly subsidized it. Mike > Hi Bill, > > I agree with you completely. It just doesn't make since for them not have some talking when they have it already for things. > > Yah! everything that helps us is always so much higher. Maybe someday they will realize that we are just as important and buy things just as the sighted do. > > Oh well, it is about time for my break so I had better get off of here. > > Dee > > > > Re: Dropping sugar level > > > Dee, > > What I don't get is why it's so difficult to have a talking glucometer. The > talking part of the technology is already there, and we already have talking > thermometers and such, so why the difficulty with talking glucometers is > beyond me. Probably it's about money and licensing of technology. And then > when we do get something it's 10 times the actual expense because the market > allows the blind (or insert the infirmity of your choice here) to be gouged > because " you're a very small minority. " But we're a growing minority aren't > we? Oh well, off my soapbox, I need it to do laundry. > > > Bill > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Dear , You must like that meter if you are still using it. Whimp that I am, it interests me that the meter sounds as if it requires less blood than the acu check. Does that mean the finger stick has less of a bite? I admit I'm a whimp. I think the sticks hurt. They bruise my fingertips and make them tender not good for playing harp, But, maybe a stick is a stick no matter how much blood you need. Odd, blood draws in my arms don't bother me, but there are probably fewer pain receptors there. Part of the problem for me are that the pokes are in nearly the same places and I often need more than one to satisfy my acu check. . Anyway, I was just wondering. And, I don't believe I mentioned it at the time, but I appreciated it when you wrote to me off list about a year ago about the source of your name, Roe. I was glad to file the information away that Roe is a common name in England as well as Ireland. Always with love, Estelnalissi Re: Dropping sugar level > > > > Becky, > > > > Unfortunately it's not always possible to take a glucometer everywhere I > go, > > like to a grocery store, for example, which is where the last episode > > occurred. Though I wasn't able to test the BG level right there, yet took > a > > glucose tablet, when I got home I tested my BG level and it was indeed > > within normal limits. So if it had been high for some reason, it wasn't > > within about half an hour from the onset of that episode. I surely would > > have thought that the sugar would go high and I thought about how I might > > feel better when the sugar reached an abnormal high as can happen, but > from > > this experience I can only deduce the sugar was too low and had been > > bolstered by the glucose tablet. If another such episode should happen, I > > will have to pay more attention to details and tell my doctor about that > > episode, too. Meanwhile, this remains a mystery. I guess stranger things > > have happened though. > > > > Bill Powers > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Mike, I know that " gouged " and " allowed " are very loaded words. But it just seems like anytime there's technology for the blind or visually impaired it's _ALWAYS_ expensive, and most people that might benefit from it are on fixed incomes well below a level where they could afford such technology. It's almost as if the companies that do business for such products figure that all blind people are just loaded with goo-gobs of money and they'll charge what the market can bear. A good example is the Owaysis phone. In England the phone costs very little compared to what it costs here in the States. Wonder why that is? I've seen startup technology companies at exhibits show off their products costing thousands more than their competition yet presenting the attitude of " well, you Americans can afford it. " Same is true of medications that people in other countries get for next to nothing, yet we bear all the cost of research and development here. This is a soapbox that I don't want to stay on here and I don't want to convolute this board with political arguments, but I think technology could be cheaper which would sell more product, and it could be more uniformly priced from country to country instead of simply " sticking it " to the U.S. Just my 2 cents worth. Bill Powers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 , I think it's only going to be a matter of time, before the Sensocard Plus talking blood meter will be available in Canada. I know Bill Cunningham is working on it at the moment. Rowe. Re: Dropping sugar level > > > > , > > > > Thanks for your response about the new glucose monitor, Sensorcard if I > > read > > it. Oh it would be so nice if meters were all portable so they could be > > carried into places they're not taken to now. My glucose meter does fit in > > a > > nice little carry case but it's still bulky and to carry it around would > > be > > combersome at best, not to mention what you would do with the lancet and > > test strip when you are done with taking the reading out in public. > > Certainly we could all dream for a day when we could take a reading > > without > > lancets and test strips, and the unit would talk to us, but then that's > > still a ways off in the real world. > > > > Mister Bill > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Dee: I expect the meter will be in the $300-range. Assuredly, that's far more expensive than most bG meters that don't talk. But it was designed from the ground up with talking in mind. The other new talking meter, the " Prodigy " , *is* available in this country now (albeit there's a waiting list for it) and costs no more than do most bG meters for the sighted. But I would argue that while it talks, it isn't really designed with talking in mind. For example, while one can get one's bG reading, one only hears it once with the Prodigy and one can't review the Prodigy's memory. Mike > Hi Mike, > > That is great. I just hope it gets here andis not too explensive. > > Dee > > > > > Re: Dropping sugar level >> >> >> Bill, >> >> You will find, when the Sensocard Blood Meter becomes available in the >> States, you will be able to put it in your top pocket of your shirt, as it >> is that small. >> >> As most of you will know, I am a user of this Sensocard Plus blood meter, >> and also, being that I'm usually involved with the publicity for this meter, >> I am in regular contact with Bill Cunningham, who is the main distributor in >> the UK. As soon as I receive any updates from him, to when it will become >> available in the States, I will forward it on to you all! >> >> Rowe >> >> >> >> >> Re: Dropping sugar level >> >> >>> Becky, >>> >>> Unfortunately it's not always possible to take a glucometer everywhere I >> go, >>> like to a grocery store, for example, which is where the last episode >>> occurred. Though I wasn't able to test the BG level right there, yet took >> a >>> glucose tablet, when I got home I tested my BG level and it was indeed >>> within normal limits. So if it had been high for some reason, it wasn't >>> within about half an hour from the onset of that episode. I surely would >>> have thought that the sugar would go high and I thought about how I might >>> feel better when the sugar reached an abnormal high as can happen, but >> from >>> this experience I can only deduce the sugar was too low and had been >>> bolstered by the glucose tablet. If another such episode should happen, I >>> will have to pay more attention to details and tell my doctor about that >>> episode, too. Meanwhile, this remains a mystery. I guess stranger things >>> have happened though. >>> >>> Bill Powers >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Bill: I'll get off the political argument bandwagon after this post as this isn't the perview of this list. (grin) But communications in England is funded differently than it is here. And there's a tradition of funding technology by government that has never been the norm here -- unless you're an aerospace contractor. (grin) Mike > Mike, > > I know that " gouged " and " allowed " are very loaded words. But it just seems > like anytime there's technology for the blind or visually impaired it's > _ALWAYS_ expensive, and most people that might benefit from it are on fixed > incomes well below a level where they could afford such technology. It's > almost as if the companies that do business for such products figure that > all blind people are just loaded with goo-gobs of money and they'll charge > what the market can bear. A good example is the Owaysis phone. In England > the phone costs very little compared to what it costs here in the States. > Wonder why that is? I've seen startup technology companies at exhibits show > off their products costing thousands more than their competition yet > presenting the attitude of " well, you Americans can afford it. " Same is true > of medications that people in other countries get for next to nothing, yet > we bear all the cost of research and development here. This is a soapbox > that I don't want to stay on here and I don't want to convolute this board > with political arguments, but I think technology could be cheaper which > would sell more product, and it could be more uniformly priced from country > to country instead of simply " sticking it " to the U.S. Just my 2 cents > worth. > > Bill Powers > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Dear Mike, You make a good point re the Prodigy meter. It could be a life saver for someone without insurance on a very tight budget, but I'd miss the features of the Acu Check, especially the memory and accessibility of data as you pointed out. Though I glide by many, " political, " issues, I'm glad you don't as your activism and initiative inspire you to be well informed on many topics including those that concern our health and its management. Always with love, Estelnalissi Re: Dropping sugar level >> >> >>> Becky, >>> >>> Unfortunately it's not always possible to take a glucometer everywhere I >> go, >>> like to a grocery store, for example, which is where the last episode >>> occurred. Though I wasn't able to test the BG level right there, yet took >> a >>> glucose tablet, when I got home I tested my BG level and it was indeed >>> within normal limits. So if it had been high for some reason, it wasn't >>> within about half an hour from the onset of that episode. I surely would >>> have thought that the sugar would go high and I thought about how I might >>> feel better when the sugar reached an abnormal high as can happen, but >> from >>> this experience I can only deduce the sugar was too low and had been >>> bolstered by the glucose tablet. If another such episode should happen, I >>> will have to pay more attention to details and tell my doctor about that >>> episode, too. Meanwhile, this remains a mystery. I guess stranger things >>> have happened though. >>> >>> Bill Powers >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Mike, I am sorry to say, that is not quite correct. Some health authorities will pay for the Sensocard Plus blood meter in the UK, and yet there are some that will not. I know quite a few blind diabetics who have purchased their own meter, and not relied on their Health authority to get it for them. However, the Strips for this meter are available free on the National Health service on proscription. Rowe Re: Dropping sugar level > Bill: > > I'll get off the political argument bandwagon after this post as this > isn't the perview of this list. (grin) > > But communications in England is funded differently than it is here. And > there's a tradition of funding technology by government that has never > been the norm here -- unless you're an aerospace contractor. (grin) > > Mike > > > > > Mike, > > > > I know that " gouged " and " allowed " are very loaded words. But it just seems > > like anytime there's technology for the blind or visually impaired it's > > _ALWAYS_ expensive, and most people that might benefit from it are on fixed > > incomes well below a level where they could afford such technology. It's > > almost as if the companies that do business for such products figure that > > all blind people are just loaded with goo-gobs of money and they'll charge > > what the market can bear. A good example is the Owaysis phone. In England > > the phone costs very little compared to what it costs here in the States. > > Wonder why that is? I've seen startup technology companies at exhibits show > > off their products costing thousands more than their competition yet > > presenting the attitude of " well, you Americans can afford it. " Same is true > > of medications that people in other countries get for next to nothing, yet > > we bear all the cost of research and development here. This is a soapbox > > that I don't want to stay on here and I don't want to convolute this board > > with political arguments, but I think technology could be cheaper which > > would sell more product, and it could be more uniformly priced from country > > to country instead of simply " sticking it " to the U.S. Just my 2 cents > > worth. > > > > Bill Powers > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 Hi Bill: I took the bottle that the first ten strips came in and removed the print label. I Brailled a W and put it on top of the bottle and fastened it down with tape since I didn't have any labeling tape at the moment. that way, when I'm out in public, or not at home and need to test I can toss the used strip and lancet into the W bottle for disposal at a later time and I won't confuse the two bottles since the one containing my strips has the original print label on the side of it. I agree that our Voicemates are bulky and not always convenient to carry around. Hopefully, one day we'll have meters that we can use independently that are as small as the regular meters and they won't cost both arms and legs. Becky and Cassidy, Pilot Dog, Poodle maddpoodle27@... Re: Dropping sugar level > , > > Thanks for your response about the new glucose monitor, Sensorcard if I > read > it. Oh it would be so nice if meters were all portable so they could be > carried into places they're not taken to now. My glucose meter does fit in > a > nice little carry case but it's still bulky and to carry it around would > be > combersome at best, not to mention what you would do with the lancet and > test strip when you are done with taking the reading out in public. > Certainly we could all dream for a day when we could take a reading > without > lancets and test strips, and the unit would talk to us, but then that's > still a ways off in the real world. > > Mister Bill > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 Becky, Good idea on relabeling the bottle to take out in public. Thanks for another idea that is workable. Big Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 I use an old vitamin bottle with a child-proof cap; it's big enough for both used needles and strips and doesn't look like anything else. Mike > Becky, > > Good idea on relabeling the bottle to take out in public. Thanks for another > idea that is workable. > > Big Bill > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 Mike, That is an excellent idea. I have several odd bottles I can use to take strips and lancets. I knew there was a reason to keep some of those bottles around. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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