Diabetics, unnerved by the prospects of logging their results, yesterday
Recently I started helping with the beta testing for a diabetes logging Android app – MySugr. I’ll burble on about the app in a future article – *spoiler* it’s quite good – but it’s been the first time I’ve properly logged my diabetes for ages.
Many years ago I went on a sailing holiday in the Mediterranean (yes, I am hopelessly middle-class) and I took charge of writing our boat’s log book. Having the attention span of a brain-damaged gnat, I quickly bored of noting down the wind-speed, the water depth and where we had anchored, so I made up an entirely fictitious account of our journey.
According to my log book, our 32-foot yacht was beset by raging storms, we were visited by mermaids (who made us salami sandwiches for lunch, as I recall) and inevitably we were attacked by pirates in the exhilaratingly-named Blind Man’s Gizzard cove.
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Brownie points for actually doing some logging. I’m still in my anti logging rebellious phase which has lasted since my mid teens.
It appears that when i decide to rebel i focus on one thing and do it for several decades.
And I’m rubbish at sailing logging too.
I admire your perseverance, co-writer. Was it also several decades since you last changed your lancet? 😉
I have never logged.
My pump should log for me now I have the sensor but my computer does not sync up well with the Medtronic stupid stupid stupid site, so after trying three times I am never going to bother again.
Shame because I am either an embarrassing 17.5 or an equally irritating 3,2.
Is it only a web-based interface with Medtronic or can you use software on your local PC?
Um… you have to log in to Medtronic, and use a system on their site, but my computer is a mac and they don’t make the software compatible.
Being a web-based application I thought it would work with any computer – unless they’re using some proprietary technology which isn’t Mac friendly. Do you get Java on Macs?
Yes, and Java is part of the problem I seem to recall…
Sadly it’s a OS X 10.9 problem. 10.8 and below worked OK after ignoring the warnings and tweaking a few things but 10.9 has broken the dodges. Medtronic have told me the delay is that they have to pass any software updates through the FDA. And of course I believe them.
Java is always a pain – it’s a bit of an out-dated technology in my view.
I refuse to run Java any more since the less than enthusiastic approach to plugging the enormous security holes over the last year or so.
I did do a bit of Veo downloading early on, but really disliked the report format and was glad to take it off the list of ‘things I think I ought to do from time to time’.
I feel slightly exposed without a nicely kept log to check back over these days and have been full-on logging for so long I don’t even notice I’m doing it any more.
Any way of getting in on that beta testing? i so need to look at my records…
No need Lizz, as far as I know the droid version has launched in the Play store