[Diabetes-talk] technology flaws

[Mike Freeman]

That'll work about as well as anything else! <smile>

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Colleen Roth
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 11:34 AM
To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] technology flaws

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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