[Diabetes-talk] diabetes apps on the iphone

[Mike Freeman]

Julie:

Congrats on lowering your A1C.  You're not there yet (A1C under 7 or 6.5) but you're well on the way.  Your doctor is correct:  any appreciable decrease in A1C lowers your risk of a heart attack or other diabetic complications.

I strongly urge you to start keeping that file on your PacMate again; how else can you spot trends in your readings?  I realize this takes discipline and upon a lack of discipline many a diabetes ship has foundered.  But you can do it.

As for the iPhone, there's a definite learning curve.  You won't be a whiz in a day.  But I assure you it's quite possible.  Get Anna Dresner's and Dean Martineau's book "Getting Started with the iPhone" from National Braille Press.  It tells you everything you'll need to know to strip the mystery from i-devices.  I don't regret getting my iPhone.



Mike Freeman
sent from my iPhone


On Apr 15, 2011, at 12:38, "Julie Kline" <julie.kline at rochester.rr.com> wrote:

> I'd be curious to hear back from someone about whether these apps are
> accessible.  I've been kicking around the idea of whether or not to buy an
> i-Phone, but I find the whole concept of the flat screen and doing the
> gestures intimidating.  Anyway, for a while, I used a file I created in my
> pacmate and wrote down my sugar readings and what I ate in that file, but to
> be honest I haven't been very good about keeping up with it.  On a good note
> though, my A1c went down from 8.6 to 7.9.  It didn't seem like much to me,
> but my doctor said that even just that little could reduce my chance of a
> heart attack by 10%.
> Have a good weekend.
> Julie
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike Freeman
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 11:44 PM
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> 
> I haven't tried any of them.  I just use the Elements Dropbox editor and
> create a flat file with my readings on my iPhone which is, of course, synced
> to my computer.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jude DaShiell
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 2:41 AM
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> Subject: [Diabetes-talk] diabetes apps on the iphone
> 
> Are any of those apps accessible for VoiceOver and useful enough to be worth
> the download and the space taken up on our iphones?
> 
> 
> 
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