My Diabetes: Day 245
Steph and I are at the ADA meeting in DC, where I had the opportunity to get my A1c done as a freebie from one of the vendors at the exhibit hall. As some of you might recall, I was diagnosed with diabetes last year, at which time my A1c was 11.1 (normal range up to 7). I've had subsequent A1c's with progressive improvement, but getting a 5-minute result (with Metrika's A1CNow+ device) for free just couldn't be passed up.
And the result was awesome: 5.9 -- which left me floating on cloud nine for a while... all those shots (2 shots of Lantus daily, 3-5 shots of Novolog/day, and zillions of fingersticks for blood sugars) have indeed done something.
Just like I've always told my patients.
Bill the diabetesdoc
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