[Diabetes-talk] accessible glucommiters

[Mike Freeman]

Don't you wish meters sent Morse code?

On Nov 2, 2010, at 14:39, Vincent Chaney <vgc732 at optonline.net> wrote:

> Lauren,
> 
> An upgrade would likely help. If you require speech, the Prodigy Voice would 
> be the unit from Prodigy and not the Autocode, though the Autocode has been 
> updated since 2008. I believe there is a repeat in the Autocode today. With 
> the Prodigy Voice and the BioSense Solo you are able to change all settings. 
> This weekend, for example, those of us who need to alter to standard time 
> will be changing our meters back one hour. The Prodigy Voice and the 
> BioSense Solo both will give you test results in memory. The Prodigy Voice 
> gives you 450 results with the date and time while the Solo is being updated 
> from our feedback and a review I had submitted to the BioSense Company. 
> Currently the Solo only gives 10 results with the date only. They have said 
> this will be expanded in the quantity and will include the time of the test.
> With regards to the speech and your limited hearing, I also have an issue 
> with the teen numbers sounding like the ones like thirty, forty, fifty, 
> sixty, etc. As all meters are not lab exact, the best thing would be to 
> retest as you may get a reading close but not exactly the same. If, in your 
> example of 150, you got 145 you would know that your first was likely the 
> 150 and not the 115 reading. The only problem would be if the first was 150 
> and the second was 140, you may not be sure if you had heard 140 or 114(sad 
> face). I have worked with both the Prodigy Voice and the BioSense Solo and 
> have had this speech problem. In actuality, I have this issue with my 
> talking watch as well and do not have any troubles with my hearing.
> Wishing you the best...
> 
> Vinny
> Vincent Chaney Jr
> NFB Diabetes Action Network (DAN) Board of Directors
> NFBNJ Diabetes Division President
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> Mail: vgc732 at optonline.net
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lauren B. Hunter" <nightingale at pcdesk.net>
> To: <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 4:35 PM
> Subject: [Diabetes-talk] accessible glucommiters
> 
> 
>   Thanks so far for the responses i've received.  i'm not sure which
> prodigy it is, but from what i'm remembering, i've had mine since August
> or September of 2008.  i have also found at times that i get inacuriate
> readings, and for me it helps that i generally know where my levels
> should be.  So if i end up getting something really low or really high,
> i will end up testing again.  my current insurance is Mediacare, it
> sounds like if i upgraded to something newer, that might solve some of
> my problems?
> Lauren
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