[Diabetes-Talk] My Saturday night G7 adventure.

[d m gina]

I am sure that is true,
to bad it doesn't say what it is when you put it on.
I just have to wait for a sighted person to come on.
I know when I used ira they didn't mind looking at anything, but I 
don't don't know about be my eyes.
Dar
Original message:
> Dar, there is no extra battery for the sensor. I'm a little concerned 
> about you wearing it for several days before actually using it. Since 
> the start time counter starts when you first insert it, by the time you 
> start it working, I wonder if you'll only have a few days left. Just 
> thinking out loud.
> And the thing is, once we figure this stuff out, it's really not all 
> that hard. But things don't come with blind-friendly tutorials any 
> more. <grin> I can get through it but no question, I wouldn't mind 
> skipping the experimentation phase. <grin>
> Veronica


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> From: Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of d m 
> gina via Diabetes-Talk
> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2023 12:54 PM
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> Cc: d m gina <dmgina at mysero.net>
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] My Saturday night G7 adventure.

> No battery came with the sensor except what is in the inside.
> Dar
> Original message:
>> as far as charging the Center stores here, yet, you replace the battery
>> is the AAA battery a one AAA battery and you replace it. I generally do
>> it loops month, so Joyce.i

>> Sent from my iPhone

>>> On Jun 18, 2023, at 2:41 PM, Patricia Maddix via Diabetes-Talk
>>> <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

>>> Darr,
>>> Don’t feel bad. I do not yet have a G7, but from all that I am reading,
>>> it sounds like the screens are way too busy, and that frequently needed
>>> buttons are buried far to deep in menus.  These apps should be
>>> developed for ultimate simplicity and ease of getting to things that
>>> are needed on a daily basis. It should not be assumed that everyone
>>> using them is high-tech, or if they are, they just don’t want to devote
>>> this much time to the app. I am sure we would all agree that we would
>>> like to spend as little time as possible managing our diabetes and
>>> still be able to do a good job.
>>> Patricia

>>> Sent from my iPhone

>>>> On Jun 18, 2023, at 11:31 AM, d m gina via Diabetes-Talk
>>>> <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

>>>> Oh this is good news.
>>>> I have my senser on, but don't have anything going, don't understand
>>>> all of it to try it.
>>>> I admire folks who can do this.
>>>> Dar
>>>> Original message:
>>>>> Hi everyone.
>>>>> Okay, I did as I said I would.
>>>>> First, I did get the QR code by taking a picture. Wow! It was a bit twiddly
>>>>> fiddly. My phone didn't vibrate or make noise when I got it though. I just
>>>>> got the message about pairing. The first time I got it, I wasn't sure I had
>>>>> gotten it, because it left me in the place where I'd enter the code
>>>>> manually. So being unsure, I backed out and did it again. The second time I
>>>>> got the pairing request, it still felt just a little funny where I was left,
>>>>> but I eventually did find the start button and off it went. But I was
>>>>> thrilled to see that unlike the G6, we had a longer time to play with the
>>>>> "take picture" mode and it didn't time out. Woo hoo!
>>>>> I had put the new sensor on 1 hour before I let the old one expire. I wanted
>>>>> as littler interruption of what I was doing, so it worked out that way. I
>>>>> think I ended up with about a minute of no sensor readings, so that was
>>>>> pretty cool.
>>>>> I'm also playing with some of the alerts. I'm trying out the new change in
>>>>> the high alert where I've told it that my reading must be high for half an
>>>>> hour before bugging me, so any quick post-meal spikes won't bug me. Since
>>>>> urgent low wasn't kicking in till my reading was around 60, I added in a low
>>>>> and set it to 80. Hopefully this will keep me from crashing so much.
>>>>> I'm still not overly impressed with the alarms. Most of them are like those
>>>>> in the G6.
>>>>> And I still have a bit of difficulty getting that itty bitty piece of tape
>>>>> off.
>>>>> But thanks for the nudge on the cool new discoveries. I still want my stop
>>>>> or replace button and a better blue tooth. But I did enjoy playing with the
>>>>> good stuff.
>>>>> Now we'll see how the sensor behaves all week.
>>>>> Thanks for the tidbits.
>>>>> Veronica



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