[Diabetes-Talk] FW: I agree. The press, the media and more

[Patricia Maddix]

to answer your questions regarding a survey of this group. I got the 523 pump in 2015 after using the medTronic pumps for 20 years. When I got a motor error in 2017 they replaced it with the 723 pump. At that time Medicare was not covering the 530 nor did I find the Medtronic sensors to be accurate nor could I any longer see the blood glucose value displayed on the pump screen.  I use Dexcom And the iPhonethe iPhone app which voiceover will read to me. My pump will expire this September and my doctor is hoping that I would be able to use the tandem. I am very scared about doing that as my vision is minimal and I would have to rely heavily on my husbands assistance. We cannot always be together all of the time but I don’t think I would have any kind of good Blood glucose control without a pump.
Patricia Maddix

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> On Aug 26, 2020, at 1:12 PM, Matt Davis via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Second, as to why a story is covered  is very subjective, what it deems worthy is really up to the media,
> What ever form of press, numbers do matter.
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> Subject: The press, the media and more
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> Again, it’s obvious that some of you have your own experiences about news coverage. But , at this point, I’m willing to try something new…
> Sometimes, a single individual’s story has made the media.
> Since numbers do matter when writing a story, I’m curious, with some of you on this list if we can’t just take a simple count, say for the next week, of how many people already use a 530 G Medtronic pump?
> And, Let’s just take a simple count of how many people have wanted a pump and don’t even look into it because of the lack of accessibility?
> This starting information could give us something to build on.
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