[Diabetes-talk] newly diagnosed

Fri Aug 7 23:56:09 UTC 2015

Sandra,
First, let me say how much I share your frustration. Amen! 
As to the strips, the only way I get around this is to force the doctor to
increase the number of times I test each day. If the insurance companies
insist on everything being perfect, this is the only way to have enough
strips to allow for mistakes or machine errors.
I gave up on the Prodigy a long time ago. The other accessible meter is the
Solus V2. I still just use a regular non-talking FreeStyle Lite meter which
I connect up to a computer or an old Braille 'n speak to read the number.
Not the most efficient but I prefer the meter. 
In my opinion we had better access to meters back in the nineties when we
had third party speech boxes to attach to some of the same meters that
sighted people used. Unfortunately all of these companies can't seem to see
past the word liability, law suit, lawyer. It cracked me up to get a meter
labeled in braille, cassette instructions with braille on the cassette and
there it is in the middle of the instructions! This meter isn't really
intended to be used independently by a totally blind person. Good grief! So
in my opinion we have a long way to go, keeping up with all of the
technology now used in what is now standard care for diabetes management.
Okay, off my soap box now. Good thought about the serial numbers though.
Veronica

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-----Original Message-----
From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of S
L Johnson via Diabetes-talk
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 4:21 PM
To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind
Cc: S L Johnson
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] newly diagnosed

Hello,

I've been dealing with the testing problems for over a year now.  I never 
stick my Braille reading finger.  I got too frustrated with the lancing 
device because it didn't seem to go deep enough to get any blood.  I gave up

and just prick my finger with the lancet by itself.  I find testing very 
frustrating at times.  Sometimes the Prodigy tells me the sample is too 
small and to test again with a new strip.  Well, can't they make it so you 
will get a warning but without you having to use another strip?  I've often 
gone without testing for a few days when I ran out of strips too soon. 
Ocasionally my meter says low instead of giving me a number.   Sometimes 
this happens two or more times before I get a real reading and This also 
uses up too many strips.  Have any of you had this happen?  Also, if they 
are going to make products for the blind, then they need to put model and 
serial numbers in Braille.  I had problems getting help from Prodigy 
customer service when I wasn't able to tell them my serial number.  Another 
problem I have is with the coding solution.  You have to match the number on

the bottle to know if your meter is correct and we can't read that number. 
With so many blind diabetics using the Prodigy, isn't there anything we can 
do to convince them to make their software accessible?  Finally, I am so 
frustrated with Prodigy, what other meters are accessible to someone who is 
totally blind?

Sandra

-----Original Message----- 
From: Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via Diabetes-talk
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 4:52 PM
To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'
Cc: Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] newly diagnosed

I use the Prodgiy Voice as well. I write my readings down in an Excel
spreadsheet though.

Bridgit

-----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 3:39 PM
To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind' <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Rachel Krieg <rkrieg7583 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] newly diagnosed

He uses the prodigy voice, and we can't, for the life of us, figure out how
to download his results. When he was using the solo, the software was
inaccessible. His doctor has no clue as to how to download his results from
either the solo or the prodigy.

Do you guys remember the acucheck with the separate box that read the level
with speech? That's what he first started using after he lost his eyesight.

I'm so glad they have the prodigy voice now.
Rachel and Lady the lovable lab

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