Today's Diabetes Blog Week prompt asks us to come up with a fantasy diabetes device that would make our world better. I wrote the following list in less than 5 minutes. Me thinks maybe I think about this stuff more than I think I do..
So in true Letterman style I present to you:
Meri's top 10 list of
Made up diabetes care devices
countdown style
10. Cracked tubing
alert sensor. Within the past month we
have fought three intense rounds with cracked tubing. Cracked tubing that allowed no insulin to be injected...which led to large ketones and miserable kids.
It would be nice to know if the tubing has been compromised for sure. (cough...understatement...cough.)
9. Ketones
automatically tested with every blood sugar test. It would be a combined test, using one
strip. (And lest I'm not specific
enough, this fantasy includes the strip NOT costing 10 bucks a piece.)
8. Implanted microscopic
microphones. If I could get these embedded into my boys ears, I could be their Jiminy
Cricket. "Did you test your
sugar? Did you forget to brush your
teeth? Don't forget to return your
library book. Ummm...did you test your
sugar?" You know you want to do it.
7. A low fix that can
fit into your pocket, and doesn't taste or look like a glucose tab. Instant, easy, durable. Is that too much to ask? Not in my fantasy world, baby!
6. Automatically
texted blood sugar numbers from child's monitor. I think this exists, but I want one that
works on wifi and doesn't cost me an arm and a leg for a subscription.
5. Noninvasive blood
sugar testing. Where is that dang
watch????? How hard is it to invent a
flipping watch that infrared-ly checks blood sugars?! We can invent snuggies and we can't invent
this? Come on!
4. A glucagon chamber
on the pump...in case of emergency press gluc button. I think the bionic pancreas has this...but
I'd like it on the next generation Medtronic pump. (That means I want it now. And by now, I mean yesterday.)
3. A swelly brain
deflator. Nuff said.
2. A blood sugar monitor
that alarms if a teen hasn't checked in a certain amount of time. One that alarms LOUD and Proud and can't be
turned off unless a sample has been added to the strip. Which on the surface, I know, sounds really
mean. But trust me, one time with that
alarm going off and J won't let it go off again.
And the number one device...would be...
A cure.
How is that a device?
Hello...FANTASY device.
I'll let the fantasy world work out the deets on that one.
This concludes day 4 of D Blog Week...to see other blogs on this topic visit the link HERE.
Numbers 6 and 5: Yes please. Number 2: easily defeated by your teen leaving his glucometer AT HOME for an entire weekend and you have no way to get it to him. Been there, done that. Number 1 trumps them all.
ReplyDeleteGreat list!
ReplyDeleteNumber 7: When Shannon Beth was first diagnosed we used the small tubes of icing gel, you know the things you use to write names on cakes and stuff. They were 15 carbs, small, portable, and most importantly Shannon Beth loved the taste. Sadly, I can't get them here in Ireland so now we use snack boxes of raisins.
Number 4:that would be brilliant! One less thing to carry!
Of course, Number 1 is the silver bullet!
dude, i freaking love the ketone idea and it's so simple i can't believe i didn't think of it, or that it doesn't already exist, i mean COME ON.
ReplyDeletei'm high fiving you on all the rest too, esp number 1 duh.
Hay, i am new to your blog and i found it simple and awesome. It really has simple and useful information from point 1 to 10. I will check it again for further information for diabetic 1.
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