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Originally Posted by jscott
omg that's so sad..... with your knowledge/experience, how long do those "windows of opportunity" last? also, would those patches you stick on your arm help to have identified a possibly lethal situation was brewing?
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Those patches are called librelink
https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/...librelink.html
not sure if they're available worldwide.
I simply wave my IPhone up to it and it shows the number on the meter where you're at. You need training on it obviously.
My brother (who recently passed away in Dec of cancer) had one after I recommended it. He found it helpful to monitor his sugar levels. Now - the question is - about can the machine identify? ONLY if you actually do a test by putting the app on your phone up to the sensor. What I was teaching my brother at the time was HOW to recognize a diabetic shock (the early flags) to indicate whether he should quickly do a check of his sensor and what to take if it happens. Early signs can be disorientation - a numb tongue - feeling of anxiety - vision blurry - hard to speak = sweats - things like that. Once I see that I am hitting a low I start heading towards kitchen after telling someone in my family so they know what's going on. Even my kids know what to do (as young as 8). So some sugary cereal - orange juice - flat pop - (no chocolate slow acting sugars an wrong sugars) - fruit or fruit juice. etc. There is a lot. Then it's a slow waiting time and I check the readings again - if I see them going up then I'm fine.
Now hearing this new news from the gf about having to put him in a coma is different - so whatever I said really doesn't apply since something else has happened that I'm not aware of when it comes to diabetes.
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