Pictures of old diabetes equipment

[Tim]

I’m toying with making up an archive / timeline of diabetes equipment over the years. Why? Why not.

Being a young whipper-snapper to diabetes, my oldest meter is a mere five years old. So if you have some old equipment hanging about then could you take a good high-resolution picture of it and email it to me at tim@shootuporputup.co.uk with some notes on what the heck it is and when it was used.

It might be fun, it might be misery; but until we do it we’ll never find out.

[Dave]

Looking back I wish I’d kept the kit.

Special fond memories of the blue BM Stick machine that guaranteed to throw an error everytime I used it even after I’d sacrificed half a hands worth of blood and waiting 2 minutes.

I’ll try to find the ‘gun’ this weekend.

[Dave]

This is the one. Accurately and well described http://www.diabetesdaily.com/parker/2009/04/the-way-things-were-blood-glucose-meters.php

[Alison]

I’ll have to consult the parents, I suspect there may be a secret stash of it all hidden away in their loft somewhere.

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