[Diabetes-talk] newly diagnosed

[Mike Freeman]

Rachel:

 

Ileen has good advice for you. the basic problem is that, not seeing the
drop of blood (it's extremely small), we, the blind, tend to smear it rather
than allowing it to retain its bead-shape and be sucked up into the strip.

 

There's a great little booklet NFB put out a few years ago called Bridging
the Gap Living with Blindness and Diabetes or something close to it. It
contains an article on finger-sticking techniques, authored by Ed Bryant,
the late beloved president of the Diabetes Action Network. I can send you
the booklet as a Word document or you can go to the NFB website
<https://www.nfb.org/>  and do a search for "Bridging the Gap"; the booklet
is on the site in both HTML and audio.

 

Mike

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Rachel Krieg via Diabetes-talk
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 11:43 AM
To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'
Cc: Rachel Krieg
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] newly diagnosed

 

Hi, all.

 

Do you guys have any tips for getting the blood from finger to strip? When I
tried to test before with a separate lancet, I couldn't get the blood from
my finger to the strip.

Rachel and Lady the lovable lab

 

 

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