A personal experience of CGM
It is not easy having type 1 diabetes. I don’t know this from personal experience – my pancreas is fine. I know that living with type 1 diabetes can be really hard because lots and lots of people that I have had the privilege of meeting through JDRF have told me so. Not having type 1 diabetes hasn’t prevented me from being very dedicated to JDRF’s mission. I can now count many people with type 1 diabetes as my friends and I love that my every workday involves helping them get a little bit closer to a cure.
So the other day I tried type 1 diabetes for myself. Well, just a little bit. A few of my colleagues and I had ourselves hooked up to a personal Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) for 6 days, just to see how it felt. I described it to a friend who doesn’t ‘speak’ diabetes as being equivalent to about 33% of life with type 1 diabetes. We were connected to a CGM and we also did fingerpricks about half a dozen times a day to calibrate the CGM, as though we were about to do a bolus dose of insulin.
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