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A glucose-testing tatoo

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Robert Miles - 04 Mar 2008 23:45 GMT
A video on a glucose-testing tatoo:

http://www.webmd.com/video/glucose-testing-tattoo
Julie Bove - 05 Mar 2008 00:16 GMT
>A video on a glucose-testing tatoo:
>
> http://www.webmd.com/video/glucose-testing-tattoo

Holy cow!  What kind of meter is Martha using?  She got about 1/2 teaspoon
of blood in that drop.

And who wants a plastic implant?  Not me!  You can have it Martha.
Nico Kadel-Garcia - 05 Mar 2008 07:19 GMT
> >A video on a glucose-testing tatoo:
>
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> And who wants a plastic implant?  Not me!  You can have it Martha.

Oh, you've not seen or used Norplant, I take it? I was involved in
some research decades ago for implantable insulin release devices. I'd
accept such a device in a heartbeat, and we'd discuss it with our 6-
year-old Isabel but I bet she'd take it in a heartbeat too.
Potentially much safer and handier and lalowing more frequent testing
than a glucometer, and just the sort of thing to cross-wire to an
insulin pump for a genuine artifical pancreas.

Of course, such non-invasvie testing is one of the Holy Grails of
diabetes treatment. If it was easy, it would have been done 30 years
ago: I assume they're using some sort of glucinase embedded plastic?
Julie Bove - 05 Mar 2008 07:28 GMT
On 5 Mar, 00:16, "Julie Bove" <julieb...@verizon.net> wrote:
> "Robert Miles" <robertmi...@bellsouthNOSPAM.net> wrote in message
>
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>
> And who wants a plastic implant? Not me! You can have it Martha.

Oh, you've not seen or used Norplant, I take it? I was involved in
some research decades ago for implantable insulin release devices. I'd
accept such a device in a heartbeat, and we'd discuss it with our 6-
year-old Isabel but I bet she'd take it in a heartbeat too.
Potentially much safer and handier and lalowing more frequent testing
than a glucometer, and just the sort of thing to cross-wire to an
insulin pump for a genuine artifical pancreas.

Of course, such non-invasvie testing is one of the Holy Grails of
diabetes treatment. If it was easy, it would have been done 30 years
ago: I assume they're using some sort of glucinase embedded plastic?

I've seen Norplant and know people who used it.  They had nothing but
trouble with it.  You couldn't pay me to use that or any other kind of
hormone birth control.
Nicky - 05 Mar 2008 19:42 GMT
>I've seen Norplant and know people who used it.  They had nothing but
>trouble with it.  You couldn't pay me to use that or any other kind of
>hormone birth control.

I used depoprovera for a decade and loved it; and am having similar
success with the IUD equivalent. Just to balance out your perceptions
: )

In terms of non-invasive bg devices - I'd love a tattoo that told me
what was going on!

Nicky.
T2 dx 05/04 + underactive thyroid
D&E, 100ug thyroxine
Last A1c 5.6%  BMI 25
Cheri - 05 Mar 2008 18:09 GMT
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote in message ...
accept such a device in a heartbeat, and we'd discuss it with our 6-
year-old Isabel but I bet she'd take it in a heartbeat too.

Wow, Nico, she's that old already! Seems like a short time ago that
she was just a tot. I bet she's a doll. Take care.

Cheri
Ozgirl - 05 Mar 2008 22:04 GMT
> Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote in message ...
> accept such a device in a heartbeat, and we'd discuss it with our 6-
> year-old Isabel but I bet she'd take it in a heartbeat too.
>
> Wow, Nico, she's that old already! Seems like a short time ago that
> she was just a tot. I bet she's a doll. Take care.

I remember the pregnancy! They grow so quickly these days :)
Billie - 05 Mar 2008 22:31 GMT
>> Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote in message ...
>> accept such a device in a heartbeat, and we'd discuss it with our 6-
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> I remember the pregnancy! They grow so quickly these days :)

How are all of yours?  We'll have great-grand #4 in May.
Ashton is already past 5 mos. and a doll.  I love him so.

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Ozgirl - 05 Mar 2008 23:03 GMT
"Billie" <someone@swbell.net> wrote in message

> How are all of yours?  We'll have great-grand #4 in May.
> Ashton is already past 5 mos. and a doll.  I love him so.

Mine are all good :) Summer arrived 3 weeks ago so life has been full on
with her and Sunny who just turned 14 months last week :) My eldest grandson
started school last month, everyone is growing like weeds.
Cheri - 05 Mar 2008 23:12 GMT
>"Billie" <someone@swbell.net> wrote in message
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>with her and Sunny who just turned 14 months last week :) My eldest grandson
>started school last month, everyone is growing like weeds.

Congrats Jan...did you post the details? If you did, I missed it. I
like the names Sunny and Summer...they have a very cheerful tone to
them.

Cheri
Billie - 06 Mar 2008 06:26 GMT
>>"Billie" <someone@swbell.net> wrote in message
>>
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>
> Cheri

When older, they can say we are a Sunny Summer.

I'm glad you asked, Cheri.  I thought I had been negligent and failed to
notice.  All my good manners seem to be crmbling these days.  I'm such a
shame.  A few years ago I could rattle off each child's birth stats, but no
more.  Am not even sure of Ashton's birth stats, except that he was about
Debbie's weight, and 18 or 19 inches.  I'm leaving that up to the younger
ones, and they do not seem to be as hung up on it as we were back in the
60's when it went out on birth announcments.  So much has changed,  Things
have been so much more relaxed with Ashton.  I've enjoyed it.

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Ozgirl - 06 Mar 2008 09:11 GMT
>>"Billie" <someone@swbell.net> wrote in message
>>
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> like the names Sunny and Summer...they have a very cheerful tone to
> them.

I am not sure if I did or not. I was there for the birth as well as my
eldest daughter, we had quite a party! Laughing gas all around, the nurses
couldn't understand why everyone in the room was so happy. There was a very
short period of time before the epidural where my daughter was in pain but
laughing with the gas, so I laughed and she turned to her partner and
growled "can you get her to shut up!" lol. 5 minutes later she said the same
to me, tell her partner to STFU. Then she would burst out laughing. It was
all quite bizarre.

Oh, and when the anaesthetist came in to do the epidural she bounded out of
bed and sat on the edge of it and said "do it!!". The doc said whoa, I gotta
do a number of things first, lol. After the epidural was in place the doc
bashed his head on the overhead light that had been brought down too low,
half a dozen voices gasped very loudly and my daughter panicked, what?
where? who? is there something wrong with me? lol. The head midwife said no,
doc just banged his head and she started laughing. As I said bizarre time.
Billie - 06 Mar 2008 06:17 GMT
> "Billie" <someone@swbell.net> wrote in message
>
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> with her and Sunny who just turned 14 months last week :) My eldest
> grandson started school last month, everyone is growing like weeds.

A new baby sure seems to lighten a place up doesn't it?  Ashley and Ashton
were here over the weekend a week ago, and he was so much fun, even though
he was sick with a fever and hoarseness.  As long as we kept the fever down,
he was playing and laughing.  So cute at that age.  I want Jim and me to go
see them before his surgery.  It is beautiful country where they are.

Kaitlyn just turned two, and Matthew will be five in July.  Still no further
advancement for him, and no dx other than autism, a broad spectrum of a dx
to be sure.  ;(  Bless Jen's heart, she is dedicated to him for the long
hall.  YOU know what it is like, and what she is in for.  Both  of you have
the questioinable adult years before you.  Kaitlyn is his shadow, looking
out for him.  No one knows how badly I want to see those two.

Enjoy them all, Jan.  I lost your email address when I gave my computer that
drink.  ;)
bh-wages at swbell dot net plus mine can always be found at my blog in my
profile.  haha Not very hidden is it?

Ragdoll Billie on the Road to Remission
http://andlifegoesononedayonestepatatime.blogspot.com/
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/billiewages

Striving for a world without Myasthenia Gravis
http://www.myasthenia.org/amg_whatismg.cfm
Cheri - 05 Mar 2008 23:11 GMT
Billie wrote in message ...

>>> Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote in message ...
>>> accept such a device in a heartbeat, and we'd discuss it with our 6-
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>How are all of yours?  We'll have great-grand #4 in May.
>Ashton is already past 5 mos. and a doll.  I love him so.

Mine are all fine Billie, the great grandchildren are growing quickly,
and will soon be two. It seems like yesterday that Ashton was born.
You're ahead of me with greats...I only have two, both girls, which
makes 11 total. I've been sending good thoughts your way Billie, and
do so much hope things work out for you and Jim during his surgery and
your hospital stay. :-)

Cheri
Billie - 06 Mar 2008 10:57 GMT
> Billie wrote in message ...
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>
> Cheri

Time is passing so quickly Cheri.  The children in the attachment support
group when Ashley was younger, are forming their own lives now, we moms
giving updates on how the children are doing.  I own one yahoo group of a
few of us, which reminds me, I need to send them an update on Ashley.  There
are some remarkable women there, the majority of whom have adopted children.

Please keep those good thougths coming.  Each day that gets closer, gets
just a little bit more tense.  I'm more tense about having to leave here
than anything else, secondary to Jim's health and surgery of course.
Yesterday, when we were having *our time* Jim looked at his watch, noted the
time, then said "Two weeks from now I'lll be in surgery.  I'll be asleep."
He is more nervous about being put to sleep than anything else.  I set his
computer up for the prostate cancer newsgroup so he could go there if he
wanted to without any pressure, and without anyone - well, me of course,
because no one else knows about it - knowing what he is doing, letting him
have his privacy.

It's funny.  One day he told me, why didn't I go and do the surgery part for
him since I have had so many, and am used to it.  He might be right.  I
might be less nervous if it were me being wheeled back there rather than
him, especially since I cannot be there to go with him up to the last step,
the last hand hold, the last kiss.  Slurp.  I'm just a romantic.  *s*

I appreciate your friendship, Cheri.

Ragdoll Billie on the Road to Remission
http://andlifegoesononedayonestepatatime.blogspot.com/
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/billiewages

Striving for a world without Myasthenia Gravis
http://www.myasthenia.org/amg_whatismg.cfm
Trekman - 05 Mar 2008 11:51 GMT
> >A video on a glucose-testing tatoo:
>
> >http://www.webmd.com/video/glucose-testing-tattoo
>
> Holy cow!  What kind of meter is Martha using?  She got about 1/2 teaspoon
> of blood in that drop.

I am with you Julie ... my drops are just enough to get the strip
filled, never even use Kleenex any more, just a press of the finger
for 30 seconds and wash it off.
 
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