[Diabetes-Talk] what am I doing wrong?

Tue Jan 1 18:40:11 UTC 2019

The educators aren't doing a satisfactory job of it otherwise this type
of traffic wouldn't be on this list after a client had worked with them
for a while.  So that sighted assistance is of limited use at best.  As
for be my eyes, a volunteer can tell a user what is going on at the time
the user connects with them which likely will vary a little from day to
day.  Becoming used to the variability and noting what activities
preceeded a reading may for some people start to put some kind of useful
data set together.  If this happened I can then expect that to happen
...
For the record, I've never met or worked with a diabetes educator myself
I came into this the hard way.

On Tue, 1 Jan 2019, Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via Diabetes-Talk wrote:

> Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 12:49:34
> From: Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind' <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter <bkpollpeter at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] what am I doing wrong?
>
> But how is having someone sighted going to help a blind person learn to do
> it nonvisually?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Jude
> DaShiell via Diabetes-Talk
> Sent: Tuesday, January 1, 2019 11:17 AM
> To: Amber Wallenstein via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] what am I doing wrong?
>
> If you fail after three attempts it's not a good day for readings.
> Before an attempt, you might try stretching all parts of your body in order
> to maybe get some circulation up and going.  On your first day, your body
> was surprised by what you did to it which is probably why you succeeded.
> Today, your body is now apprehensive and reacting accordingly.  Try rinsing
> your hands in warm water and see if you can get some circulation up that
> way.  If you have be my eyes on your phone or tablet, you can connect with a
> volunteer and ask them to look at the specific areas of your fingers and
> tell you if any of those areas are pink.  If you got a pink area, likely
> there's an available donation for your new metal vampire available.  When I
> started doing my own testing be my eyes wasn't even available since at that
> time it didn't exist.
>
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2019, Amber Wallenstein via Diabetes-Talk wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 12:02:31
> > From: Amber Wallenstein via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> > To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> > Cc: Amber Wallenstein <amber.wallens at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] what am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Bridgit:
> >
> > Thanks for the ideas. I just don?t understand what I?m doing wrong today
> that I wasn?t doing wrong yesterday.
> > I have no access to sighted people to help me with this, so I?m just
> trying every method I can think of to try.
> > Also I don?t qualify for MediCare, so I?m at the whim of my insurance
> company.
> > I will keep trying. I?m going to run out of test strips soon, LOL. But I
> feel this skill is one I have to have in case the Libre I get goes down for
> some reason.
> > Amber
> >
> > > On Jan 1, 2019, at 10:32 AM, Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via
> Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Plenty of totally blind people test their blood sugars with success
> > > every day. Even sighted people can struggle in the beginning with
> > > testing; nurse educators don't just see blind patients, grin. Sight
> > > can make it more convenient in the beginning, but I don't think it's
> necessarily a sight vs.
> > > blindness thing. Some of us don't have many problems testing
> > > nonvisually, and some of us need more practice and patience. But
> > > it's the same for sighted diabetics; I speak with experience here,
> > > grin. So, it's very much an individual situation here and not always
> > > specific to how much or little we see.
> > >
> > > Amber, I'm sorry it's so frustrating right now. Perhaps using the
> > > highest setting on the lancer is giving too much blood? Just keep
> > > practicing and try as many methods you can think of. When you go to
> > > the endo office, they wipe the finger after poking then squeeze
> > > again to try to avoid smearing, so, maybe try that.
> > >
> > > Bridgit
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of
> > > Jude DaShiell via Diabetes-Talk
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 1, 2019 9:19 AM
> > > To: Amber Wallenstein via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> > > Cc: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] what am I doing wrong?
> > >
> > > My guess is you smeared the strip.  The blood needs to drip through
> > > the air onto the strip in order for you not to smear the strip.
> > > This is why Medicare doesn't recommend totally blind people do their
> > > independent blood sugar testing.  Much easier for those with sight to do
> this.
> > >
> > > On Tue, 1 Jan 2019, Amber Wallenstein via Diabetes-Talk wrote:
> > >
> > >> Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 09:54:30
> > >> From: Amber Wallenstein via Diabetes-Talk
> > >> <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> > >> To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> > >> Cc: Amber Wallenstein <amber.wallens at gmail.com>
> > >> Subject: [Diabetes-Talk] what am I doing wrong?
> > >>
> > >> I got my meter on Sunday. Sunday and yesterday I did OK with it.
> > >> Today,
> > > however, no matter what I do it says my blood sample is not enough.
> > > It beeps like it?s going to test, and does it really quickly like I
> > > got enough of a sample on the strip but no matter what it won?t do a
> > > reading.  I know there is plenty of blood because I can feel it on my
> skin.
> > >> Is something defective or am I doing something wrong?  Like I said
> > >> I did
> > > fine yesterday.
> > >> I am finding the meter super frustrating to be honest.  But I want
> > >> to be
> > > able to use it successfully when needed.
> > >> Amber
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