Interesting interview with a fellow type 1 expressing clear ideas about what we live with. He became type 1 30+ years ago at age 18 – very similar to my life. He expresses the awesome bad experiences of LWA – Low While Asleep – my newly invented term. That is an off-the-cuff new word invention – I’m sure there is a term that is used for that… tell me what the term is. You know – that bad experience of waking up to your 9 year old daughter spooning marshmallow goo in to your mouth, or the awful wake-up to the roar of an ambulance engine as it carries you to the ER after your family gives up trying to rouse you, etc.
Some interesting ideas he expresses about the failure of the regulatory agencies to allow the tying of pump with CGMS to create a pancreas kludge device. I guess the failure mode of a pump continuing to deliver "stuff" when the CGMS knows you are going low can be a problem.
He expresses numerous other ideas in the interview – tell us what you heard… if you care to listen to the ~35 minute interview. "Audio for this story from Talk of the Nation will be available at approx. 6:00 p.m. ET"