[Diabetes-talk] need help for friend

[Mike Freeman]

The clicks on an insulin pen can be felt as well as her. She can use an insulin pen just fine as long as any neuropathy in her hands is not severe.

Mike Freeman


> On Nov 15, 2015, at 21:12, Tia D Jenkins via Diabetes-talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I need some help for a friend of mine.  She is also diabetic and visually
> impaired like me.  She is almost totally blind now due to her diabetes but
> she is also half deaf due to a growth in her ear as a child  She has tried
> all kinds of pills to control her sugar but her a1c was almost 11 and she
> was just diagnosed with stage 2 kidney failure.  Her doctor wants her on
> Insulin but due to her hearing loss she cannot make out the clicks for a
> quick pen (cause the clicks are for people with normal hearing).  She cannot
> see good enough to tell if there is an air bubble or if she had the correct
> dose in a syringe.  We finally got VNA to come out and pre fill 2 weeks of
> medicine at a time but they keep trying to get out of it.  They keep saying
> she needs to get better friends (who aren't handicapped) , learn to do it
> herself, move into a nursing home, or give up her home and move in with her
> sister who lives out of state.  This is after her insurance company
> (Wellcare Medicare advantage plan) said they would approve them coming out.
> Does anyone have any idea of an adaptive aid that might be able to help.
> She has gone to her department of the blind but she gets no help.  She has
> asked for help in getting other adaptive aids like an audio thermostat for
> her heating and air cause she has one of the OLD slide bar ones that is hard
> for a sighted person to use is tearing up.  They told her they don't have
> money to help buy adaptive aids unless she was needing them for work.  
> 
> Any ideas or help would be much appreciated  
> Thanks
> Tia Jenkins 
> 
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