I received these products at no cost to me, shipped out by the Tode PR team. They wrote to me after reading the post from a few months ago about the split fingertips, and while they did say that a positive review would be great, it wasn’t a condition of receiving the products. This is an unpaid review of a…
[DISCLOSURE – PLEASE READ: The team at Abbott reached out to me and asked if I’d like to trial the Freestyle Libre system. I said yes. After my doctor approved a prescription for the device, Abbott sent out the scanning device and two sensors at no cost to me. This whole review needs that bias lens in place. Good? Good….
[Disclosures? Yep. Please read them, as I have a relationship with Dexcom.] “MEEEH MEEEH MEEEH” (That’s how the urgent low alarm sounds to me on the Dexcom receiver and the Share alerts. “Meh meh meh,” as a way of poking me with an auditory stick. “Go get some glucose tabs, you jerk.”) When that alarm goes off, I don’t…
[I have a working relationship with Animas. My disclosures are here; please read them.] During the middle of one of our discussion sessions, Daniela D’Onofrio let fly a statement that defined the whole blogger summit for me: “Care what the community thinks, not what the community buys.” Last week, the European Animas team brought a group of diabetes advocates together…
“Do you guys have any fun plans for the summer?” The question was simple enough, but not even close to a level my hypoglycemia-addled brain could handle. I had trouble formulating a response, and the lag time was embarrassing. We’ve only moved to the neighborhood a few months ago and haven’t solidified relationships with our neighbors yet, so being wickedly…
All disclosures out of the way first: You guys know I have a professional relationship with Animas, as they have been a partner of mine since 2010, details outlined here. Bias lens firmly in place? Continue on. Today I have a Q&A with John Wilson, the new VP of Insulin Delivery at Johnson & Johnson about Asante closing, the Animas…