[Diabetes-talk] technology flaws

[Colleen Roth]

Hi Mike,
A little help from my Guardian Angel would be nice, just a little nudge to help the blood flow would be wonderful.
Sometimes I think I should pray to St. Jude.
Colleen Roth



----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "'Diabetes Talk for the Bl'" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Date: Sunday, Nov 25, 2012 02:05:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] technology flaws

>
>
> What you want is the Tooth Fairie to operate your lancet device.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Sandi Ryan
> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 10:50 AM
> To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] technology flaws
> 
> Oh, I'd really love, love, love a lancet that could detect blood! 
> Engineers, here's your challenge!
> 
> Sandi
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
> To: <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 12:38 PM
> Subject: [Diabetes-talk] technology flaws
> 
> 
> > At least for blind diabetics, lancets need to get smarter.  The lancet
> > needs to detect a capillary and fire only when it's on one of them if
> > there's enough blood flow through it to get a donation.  Meters need to
> > log every attempt to use them for a reading whether or not a valid reading
> > gets generated.  Doctors probably trivialize the problem of invalid
> > readings because those too are not part of the output from meters.  This
> > second criticism I think holds for all meters in use these days.  Any one
> > of these changes might get engineers and researchers to improve meters to
> > the point that a meter doesn't just give an invalid reading, it could tell
> > you or show a sighted diabetic correctly what the specific problem was
> > that caused the invalid reading in the first place.
> >
> >
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> > jude <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
> > Adobe fiend for failing to Flash
> >
> >
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