Among the many emails we get here at Shoot Up trying to convince us that our readers really need to know about the latest plant that will cure diabetes, or how for just £2000 you can spend a week in a shed in Spain yoga-ing your way out of diabetes, there is occasionally something useful.… Read More »
How come I’m testing and reviewing? After spotting an advert in Balance, I called Lifescan to blag a new OneTouch Verio Pro to test out. From the advert it seemed like a very, very slimmed down version of the Aviva Expert and it claimed to be able to spot patterns of high and low readings… Read More »
Avid readers of your soaraway Shoot Up will know that I’m a fan of my puntastically named pump Englebert Pumperdinck. This is for many reasons which I’ve covered off in previous articles so I won’t bore you with them again here. However, one of the unexpectedly useful features of Englebert is the bolus wizard, which… Read More »
A gnomish review of an innovative device. What’s in the box? The device comes in the standard sort of meter packaging, a windowed box which displays the meter. Inside is the meter, of course, a separately packaged test cassette, a lancet cassette for the FastClix finger stabbing device, and half a rainforest. Actually, the half… Read More »
Well chaps, after nearly 18 months of thinking about it I’ve finally gone and done a video blog. It’s a review of Bayer’s Contour USB meter and it’s almost unbearably brilliant. In my view. Anyway, watch and enjoy; and do let me know if you like the video blog format and I’ll do some more… Read More »
Like all of us I’m slowly advancing towards my twilight years and the inevitability of a cold, unforgiving grave; the rictus grin of Death himself the only certainty. Life is but a mere spark of light between two endless eternities of darkness. But, hey, it’s not all misery and despond. Through age comes wisdom and… Read More »
Think back to the wonderful day you were diagnosed with Type One. Ah, what lovely memories. The smell of hospital detergent, the sinking feeling in your belly as you realised with a dread chill that your life would never be the same; the moderately caring but slightly detached consultant; wondering what the hell diabetes was… Read More »
Lifescan’s OneTouch Ultra2 is my current meter of choice and I don’t really know why. Like a long-term relationship between partners who don’t love each any more, yet can’t be bothered to go to the effort of breaking up, I’m almost completely ambivalent about it. My Ultra2 isn’t really too bad, certainly isn’t abusive and… Read More »