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 »
I used to be a good diabetic. After my diagnosis five years ago I did all the things good diabetics were supposed to. Such things included changing needles every time I injected, changing my finger pricking lancet every time I check my blood glucose (something my beloved co-writer gently took the piss out of the… Read More »
People who read this blog for a long time (you poor souls) may dimly recall that in September 2009 I wrote an article where I mentioned I would be getting a pump (it’s here, if you don’t remember it). You may also dimly recall that I was a bit eggy about having to wait eighteen… Read More »
Nearly five years after my diagnosis of Type One, I’ve finally got around to getting myself some medical alert jewellery. I thought it was time that should I be found collapsed in an Edinburgh gutter late one night then the ambulance men might have a chance of identifying what the problem might be. The fact… 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 »
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I was getting some new software for recording my diabetic data to replace my old Accu-Chek Compass software. Compass was created in Microsoft Access and was not so much outdated as positively prehistoric! As I’m in the lucky position of using one of the biggest, blackest, butchest… 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 »