This article isn’t touching on technology so much as basic language. The way in which people talk about our diabetes can cause a lot of unnecessary friction. “Control”? Often we hear references to our “diabetes control”. “[your] diabetes is well-controlled.” “[…] poorly controlled”. “[…] uncontrolled”. “How has your diabetes control been?” Usually this language comes …
The quote “You can’t manage what you can’t measure” is usually attributed to Peter Drucker. I prefer the variant “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” For such a data-driven condition as diabetes, this seems very apt. This touches a little on my observations from my previous articles such as “Finding insights from CGM data” …
A long word that basically means “too much insulin in the blood”. Hyperinsulinaemia is especially associated with Type 2 Diabetes and insulin resistance, where the body’s response to insulin is reduced, and higher-than-normal insulin levels are needed to get the required effect. But it can apparently also be involved with Type 1 (allegedly not just …
I’m soon going to be heading off on a short trip away from home and so of course I’ve been updating my travel backup procedures. I’ve written about “Travel planning with diabetes” back in 2018, but some things in my gear have changed. Actually it feels a little bit strange, as with COVID/etc the last …
On this coming Sunday March 20 2022, JDRF Australia is holding another Type One Summit. It’s online again this year, and it’s free to register. There’ll be speakers on many topics relevant to our T1D tribe (both for children and for adults). The program can be seen at the above link. And if you register …
It should be fairly obvious that over the years I’ve been an avid consumer of science fiction (both as books and movies). At the very start of this blog you can find a discussion of JARVIS (from Iron Man) which was my CGM controller. Soon after I introduced GERTY (from Moon) which was the pocket …