[Diabetes-Talk] My Saturday night G7 adventure.

[Les Fitzpatrick]

Be my eyes is just fine with it, I used to use them with the G6 all the time.

Les fitzpatrickPiano Technician
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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 5:41 PM
To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
Cc: d m gina <dmgina at mysero.net>
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] My Saturday night G7 adventure.

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
> To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
> 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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