[Diabetes-Talk] Alarming at public events

[Jamie Gurganus]

Hello! I have a pair of earbuds that I bought at Walmart for only $20 that worked just fine for what you are doing Milton. I just have my phone connected to them during church or a meeting and just have one of the earbuds in my ear or pocket. If I feel my phone buzz me, I can just put the earbud in and see what it is telling me.  I am using the Omnipod five system, and there is, unfortunately no way to keep the pod from making it loud alarm sound when my blood sugar is dropping below 55, but I can deal with that. It doesn’t happen very often at all. The way I look at it, that is an alarm that I don’t want silenced!


         Jamie 
Jamie Gurganus, Resource Coach


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> On Apr 7, 2024, at 1:11 PM, Gary Wunder via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Nice. Thanks for these thoughts.
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Milton
> via Diabetes-Talk
> Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2024 12:42 PM
> To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind' <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Milton <mota1252 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-Talk] Alarming at public events
> 
> A suggestion, there are now ear buds and headphones that have what is called
> transparent mode and that seems to work for me while sitting in a meeting or
> crowd where it is extremely noisy so that if the alarm goes off only I will
> hear it and still be able to hear what else is going on around me.
> 
> The Apple AirPod Pro and AirPod Max along with a few other ear buds work in
> a similar way.
> 
> Check prices and expect to pay a starting price at around $150.00
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Gary
> Wunder via Diabetes-Talk
> Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2024 12:26 PM
> To: Diabetes Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Gary Wunder <gwunder at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [Diabetes-Talk] Alarming at public events
> 
> One of the things discussed at last year's meeting of the diabetes action
> network at our national convention was the difficulty with alarming from CGM
> devices that takes place during public meetings. While we certainly want to
> be notified when our blood sugar runs low or high, how do we manage the
> frequency of noise that is generated in public events, especially those with
> a large number of blind diabetics? This may be an agenda item we can discuss
> at our Knowledge Is Sweet seminar, but only if we have good ideas. I know,
> for example, that if I wear an Apple Watch, the watch will vibrate rather
> than my phone. I also know that I can go into the Libra application and
> temporarily disable alarms if I am confident that my blood sugar will not go
> low or high.
> 
> 
> 
> Please share any thoughts you have about how you would go about handling
> this situation. Your contribution may well make a big difference at the
> seminar. Thank you.
> 
> 
> 
> Gary Wunder
> 
> gwunder at earthlink.net <mailto:gwunder at earthlink.net>  
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