[gui-talk] Talking blood pressure unit (Will)

[Joel Deutsch]

Hi Laura,

yes, I survived the surgery, although I'm getting through these few days of 
sharp pain at the incision site (upper chest, involving a slice right 
through my left pectoral muscle)with a little prudent and carefully-meted 
out support from my old friend Dr. vicodin.

As far as talking blood sugar units are concerned, seems to be a plethora of 
such products you can find online, as I did when I was just looking for a 
few references to blood pressure meters. Reason being that diabetes has a 
lot more to do with blindness, generally, than do heart problems. I think 
the NFB reviews some and maybe even sells one or two, and I encountered some 
reviews on the Access World site, which is, what, American Federation of the 
Blind? others on this list know all that stuff a lot better than I do, so 
I'll step aside and let someone who knows better tell you where to look for 
products and product reviews.
Joel
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From: "tribble" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 2:58 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Talking blood pressure unit (Will)


Hey Joel -- welcome back -- I trust that means your surgery went well...
Now as for talking gauges, does anyone know of an accessible way to test
blood sugar? I am not diabetic, but watch my blood sugar as it tends to go
way low at times for no reason.
--le


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
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Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Talking blood pressure unit (Will)


Will,

thanks. What I've found so far is that fastening the cuff more loosely than
the two-fingers-clearance kind of fit will result in weird readings, and so
what I mean is that learning to get it tight enough but only enough, that's
what's tricky to do one-handed. But I'm working on it.

---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Will Smith" <wilsmith at iglou.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 3:41 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Talking blood pressure unit (Will)


It is a great device for sure!  My main advice is what you have discovered
on your own.  I might add best readings occur when you are calm, seated,
with the arm resting palm down on a surface like a table at normal height
from floor.  I often wait 5 minutes or so and try a second reading.
Sounds like you have thething figured out pretty well!  Good luck and
write again if there are questions.

Will
  On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Joel Deutsch
wrote:

> Hi Will,
>
> I'd have written you off list with this, but maybe there are subscribers
> here who might find this informative.
>
> I received that model of talking blood pressure device  from Amazon, and a
> sighted friend helped me by stetting it at the 150 mark to guide it
> properly.  my blood pressure's regularly been down around 100 over 60
> lately, thanks to one of the meds I'm taking.
>
> I've gotten some pretty wild readings off the thing while learning to use
> it.pretty high. But I think I've got the cuff adjustment just about right,
> which is a little tricky if you're alone, as I am, and doing it
> one-handed.
>
> but when I got 98 over 58 this evening, twice in a row, with a pulse rate
> just a few beats lower than I've been getting at doctors' offices, I
> figured
> I'm getting close. Cuff tightness seems to be the most important thing, if
> I've read the quick start instructions correctly.
>
> Do you have any tips from a practiced user? It's a pretty cool device, and
> I'd like to get a better handle on it and figure out how to estimate its
> accuracy.
> .
>
> Joel
>
>
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