During my visit to Clara Barton Camp yesterday, I heard the same sentiment over and over again from the kids wearing the bionic pancreas: “It works.” “It was weird not to touch the buttons when it beeped,” Addy said, an 11 year old camper at Clara Barton Camp who has been living with type 1 diabetes since she was two. …
Go Bionic: Ed Damiano, Clara Barton Camp, and How the Bionic Pancreas “Really Works.”
Blood Sugars, Dexcom, Diabetes Advocacy, Diabetes Community, Diabetes Online Community, Diabetes Products, Pumping Insulin, Real Life Diabetes, Robot LifeToday, I’m honored to have Catherine Price (of A Sweet Life and The New York Times fame) guest blogging at SUM, and she’s tackling the issue of the Christmas holidays and diabetes. Enjoy her post, and welcome her to the diabetes online community! * * * December is scattered with diabetic land mines, and things only get worse on holidays themselves. In my case,…