Re:New pill can deliver insulin
by bigtunacan on Friday February 08, 2019 @12:16PM
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Also a T1D here. I once had my test meter go bad on an international trip; by the time I realized it wasn't working I was on a deserted island that was an about a 4-hour boat ride away from the nearest pharmacy, which was closed.
Talk about stress levels going through the roof!
Re:New pill can deliver insulin
by lloyddobbler on Friday February 08, 2019 @02:25PM
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> Talk about stress levels going through the roof!
(Which, of course, is EXACTLY what you want to have happen when you have no way of monitoring your BG.) Yikes!
Re:New pill can deliver insulin
by bigtunacan on Friday February 08, 2019 @02:54PM
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LOL, yeah. Looking back on it now, five years later, it's a bit humorous. I went and found the resort manager and explained the whole situation to her. She didn't know anything about diabetes, so she really wasn't understanding how severe the situation was.
Resort Manager - "Won't you be ok for a week until the boat makes a trip back to the mainland for supplies?"
Me - "No, I'll be dead before then."
Resort Manager - "Is it really that serious? Do you know how much it will cost? It's really going to cost a lot of money; you will have to pay for the gas, the boat crew, and the pharmacy isn't even open on Saturdays. This is really going to cost a LOT of money."
Me - "I don't care how much it costs. I'm a dead man without it. Go wake up the boat crew and call the emergency line for the pharmacy and have someone come in."
I once failed to bring my insulin on an international trip. That was a doozy!
Making injections easier would be nice, sure. Not having to worry about finding a bathroom or bleeding into my pants or whatever. But that's a real minor set of issues compared to the constant attentiveness that managing it well requires.