[Diabetes-Talk] Does anyone remember the pumps that first cane out?

[Jamie Gurganus]

All I know is that I was a sophomore in college in 1984 when I started using one of the very first blood glucose meters. I started having vision problems in 1986 and was totally blind by 1987. I think it was in 1987 that I was introduced to the very first talking meter which was that Accu Chek one that was in a huge c carrying case. The meter it was on the left with a guide to help you get the blood on the strip. You would carry all of your supplies inside the case. It was big and bulky, but it worked!


What Joy and I were talking about was the very first insulin pump.

    Jamie

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> On Jul 4, 2019, at 9:16 PM, Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Do you mean before talking meters came out? Because I've been diabetic for
> 33 years, and I always had a meter, and there have been glucameters long
> before then.
> 
> Bridgit
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> Subject: [Diabetes-Talk] Does anyone remember the pumps that first cane out?
> 
> I had a chance to receive an insulin pump more than 30 years ago.  I was in
> a study up at Yale having to do with my sight.  I was on the team that
> didn't use the pump, but when we finishe the study we were offered to try
> the pump.
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> I don't remember the sensors, but the pump was the size of a VHS tape around
> 6" by 9" by 3".  It beep every time it administered insulin.  I remember
> going to a concert wearing it and when I got the pat down to go in they
> pulled me out of line and asked a lot of questions.
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> I used it for maybe 3 months, but my kids were young and I had too many
> insulin reactions and this was before blood glucose machines came out.
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> The one I have now is far advanced and much easier than back then.  All we
> need is to get the pump companies to make it accessible for us blind folks.
> 
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> 
> Joyce
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