[Diabetes-talk] pump difficulties

[Jude DaShiell]

A workmate got a pump recently with a meter made by Bayer.  He has had no 
end of trouble with the meter and is seriously considering of disposing of 
both the meter and the pump and going back to his old system.  One thing I 
pointed out to him is I live less than a mile from a Military Flight Path 
and he is probably in that approximate distance from it too.  There's 
pretty strange signals that get generated from their electronics 
regularly.  I remember a Juliet Brailler that would have to be 
reconfigured everytime it was turned on since the electronics sent out 
signals that messed up the configuration in the volatile ram.  Yesterday, 
I got a tech refresh at work and had it working with my noise cancelling 
headphones on and the speech suddenly went very garbled three times that 
day for a short period of time then straightened out.  Now, the Bayer 
Meter talks to the pump wirelessly, so I pointed out to Dave that 
electronic signals may very well be messing with his medical equipment 
just due to the proximity of where he lives and works.  I figured to write 
this message to this list just in case any who have trouble with their 
pumps and meters may be in or near similar areas.  If there were a piece 
of electronics that could beep when electronic signals especially on 
strange frequencies or of an otherwise strange nature were in people's 
proximities and stop beeping when those signals went off, it might be 
possible to time certain things so our equipment and those strange signals 
do not clash at least some of the time.



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