ABC News reporter seeking diabetes patients to interview
Hi all,
I am a reporter for ABC News and I am writing a story on diabetes. I am interested in speaking with diabetes patients who can talk about their day-to-day routine in living with diabetes, particularly with checking their blood sugar and how it affects everyday life. If you are interested in sharing with me, please respond to this post or email me at mikaela.a.conley.-ND@abc.com The deadline is soon, so if you get this later than 3:30, please disregard. I would need to speak with you in the next hour or so.
Thanks in advance for your time!
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Permalink Reply by Scott on -
I'd be willing to talk with you, Kaela. I've been diabetic for 40 years. I'll drop you an email w/my contact info
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Permalink Reply by MikeyType1 on -
Wow that is really short notice! I was so busy checking my blood sugar and counting carbs and sitting in the waiting room at the doctors office that I completely missed this post in time. LoL, just kidding. I hope you can follow up and let us know if that article gets the green light. I'm sure most of us here would love to read the article. Thanks.
:-)
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Permalink Reply by MikeyType1 on
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So did you ever talk/email? What's it about?
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Permalink Reply by SF Pete on -
i spoke with the reporter from ABC. She's doing a story on the nanotech/bioluminescence glucose level "indicator"(?) that the Japanese are developing that would glow as a way of telling what your BG is. She wanted some background on what this is like, what we do on a daily basis, how difficult it is to get zen about the changes brought on by diabetes. She called me back and asked me to give her an estimate of how many finger sticks I've done. I didn't get a glucose meter until the 90s. My rough estimate came to just under 40,000. For you guys who have had the monitor since diagnosis, how many glucose checks do you figure you've done?
I told her to come read around here and see what it is that we do, how we deal, etc.
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Permalink Reply by Scott on
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nanotech/bioluminescence? really? I try and keep up with such things and that is a really obscure one for me... Is that similar to the tech where they scan the liquid on your eyes?
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Permalink Reply by Baby Tee on -
Two questions about that technology:
1. If the color changed based on bg levels, who is to say it wouldn't be like the 80's when we held our test strip up to the bottle and said "Well, I know it is somewhere between 120 and 180. I guess it is closer to 120, so we'll call it 145."?
2. What if you are color blind?
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Permalink Reply by MikeyType1 on
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Maybe ABC news after interviewing the company will know. I'm sure if you had a powered light meter, then you could aim it and get a digital reading.
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Permalink Reply by onesaint on -
these were my sediments exactly when I heard about it. What good is it to have a color telling you good or bad, when Im trying to nail down 80-100. Trends? Maybe if they make it a checkerboard of different colored lights. Better yet make it morris code me out a number. solid, solid, blink, blink blink --- solid, solid, solid, solid, blink?
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Permalink Reply by AngelaC on -
When I was first diagnosed, my doctor had me purchase a meter and urine ketone strips, so if I started spilling large amounts of ketones between the time I saw her and the time I had an appointment with an endocrinologist, I could call her and let her know what was going on. I also happen to be one of the very few women out there who is also color blind. I couldn't tell the difference between most of those colors, even if someone was holding a gun to my head! I just prayed every time that the strip wouldn't change color. Unfortunately for me, as I recall, those blasted strips generally turned as deep purple as they could. Or whatever color was at or near the high end of the color chart. I never knew for certain, because I couldn't tell.
So, personally, I wouldn't go for this color changing bio-lumenescence stuff. I know my color vision isn't good enough to detect small changes. I can guess, but my guesses aren't always that accurate, and I'd prefer to be more accurate.
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Permalink Reply by barbie61 on -
Hi Tanya a member told me that you have Ischemic Optic Neuropathy and I was diagnosed with the same thing just recently I have it in both eyes and I was wondering if you could explain more about it...I would like to hear your story...You have a wonderful evening....Darlene
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