[Diabetes-Talk] Got my Talking Glucometer, now What?

[Eileen Scrivani]

Lisa,

To keep your hands in good shape for getting a good sample, be sure to keep your hands moisturized in-between those testing times. I have found that when the skin on my hands is feeling dry, especially during the cold weather, it becomes difficult to get a decent sample for BG testing. Of course when you do a test, you don’t want moisturizer or hand creams on then. Be sure to wash the stuff off at the point you’re ready to do a test.

As for getting the drop onto the strip, after I do a finger stick I hold my palm and fingers as steady as possible, with palm facing up and fingers straight out. With the opposite hand I take hold of the meter with strip already in it and bring that to the finger with the drop. Once the strip is at and on the fingerI will gently move it around until the test is triggered. It sucks up the droplet pretty quickly so when I hear the test has started I leave the strip  there to take up as much of the sample as possible.

HTH.

Eileen

From: Lisa Belville via Diabetes-Talk 
Sent: Saturday, March 7, 2020 10:06 AM
To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org 
Cc: Lisa Belville 
Subject: [Diabetes-Talk] Got my Talking Glucometer, now What?

Hi, all.


I finally got my talking glucometer working.  I wound up using my 
sighted, but reasonably informed about blindness diabetic family member 
to set up the meter and show me how to work the injector.


I have a few questions which probably seem very basic to you guys, so 
bear with me.  <smile>


First, I'm still working out the process of getting blood to the test 
strip reliably and quickly.  I've realized that the lower my blood sugar 
is, the quicker I can draw blood and have enough to do the test.  I've 
also found, through trial and error, that running my hands under warm 
water seems to help as well.  Are there any other tricks for helping 
make this process more efficient?


Secondly, Is there a way for me to review past readings with the Prodigy 
Voice?  It speaks when I press the on button, and it prompts me to 
insert a strip, but it doesn't seem to allow a totally blind person to 
repeat the last reading, or independently adjust settings like language, 
volume or time, so I just wanted to verify whether or not this could be 
done.


Finally, Are there other types of injectors that make it easier to 
adjust the sharpness of the needle?  I can take apart the pen and remove 
and replace the needle, but apparently, the sharpness setting gets reset 
once the injector is opened and the top is replaced.  I don't know what 
brand of injector this was, it was all bundled with the Prodigy meter, 
but if there's another model which would let me do this with more 
independence and accuracy I'd sure like to find out about it.  I live 
alone, so I like to do as much for myself as possible.


Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated, and again, I apologize for 
probably asking questions you all have heard before.


TIA for the help


Lisa



-- 
Lisa Belville
missktlab1217 at frontier.com


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