[acb-diabetics] Introducing myself

[Mike Freeman]

Marilyn:

I'll agree with you that the Solo V2 has some advantages, a hard case and 
the ability to decect too little blood on the strip being among them. 
However, it has some disadvantages that, to my way of thinking, are 
deal-breakers and make the meter unacceptable to use until they're fixed. 
Incidentally, I understand that there will be a new, "improved" version of 
the Solo V2 that will answer some of my concerns.  The disadvantages are 
these:

First, the Solo V2 has no "Say Display" key that allows one to repeat 
whatever is showing on the visual display as many times as one likes. 
Therefore, to hear again the reading one has just taken, one must take the 
strip out (which one would do anyway) and then go back into memory to find 
the current reading.

Second, when reviewing entries from the memory, while the visual display 
shows date and time of each reading, the audio display only speaks the date. 
This is bad news if one wishes to write down an accurate log of readings and 
doesn't right each reading (together with time and date) at the time one 
takes them.  This is enough to deter me from using the meter.

AS I say, I am told these "features" will be fixed in a meter update.

In the meantime, careful selection of a case to put the Prodigy Voice in 
will largely mitigate the thing talking excessively.

Mike Freeman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MARILYN LUTTER" <marlutt at verizon.net>
To: "Discussion list for diabetics and/or ACB issues" 
<acb-diabetics at acb.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: [acb-diabetics] Introducing myself


> Hi Dotty,
>
> I  think I  knew you when you were a  little girl.  I  was a  camp   at 
> Camp
> Allen and one year there was a  little girl in my cabin named Dotty 
> Martin.
> My name was Marilyn Warburton, known to most there as Miss Marilyn
>
> I  have had type two diabetes since 1998.  I  have been a  member of the 
> ACb
> diabetics in action since 20006.  I  just finished my second term on the
> board.  I  read this list a  lot but don't often write.
>
> The thing you were talking about with the Prodigy meter talking when you
> don't want it to drives me crazy.
>
> I  just started using another Meter, the solo v2   .I  like it very much 
> and
> it has a  hard case so you don't have to worry about buttons being pushed
> and telling the whole world what your level is.  Others on the list also
> know about this one.  If you are interested I  can post the information.
> Good luck with the diabetes. You will get all sorts of information about 
> it
> from this list.
>
> Marilyn Lutter
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dorothea Martin" <bestsinger at samobile.net>
> To: <acb-diabetics at acb.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 7:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [acb-diabetics] Introducing myself
>
>
> Hi, Veronica,
> Thanks for the cheerful reply. My Prodigy meter was given to me by a
> good friend and seems to be the older model, so I guess that little
> hole is not for a USB cable. Does the newer model talk in your purse.
> Mine wouldn't shut up today. I scolded that girl but she insisted on
> informing anyone within earshot of my latest blood glucose result, not
> one I'm too proud of at that.
> As a pump user, you might like to know that I talked with Jerry Munden,
> one of the vice presidents of the company that makes Prodigy a couple
> of days ago. He told me that they will probably have a talking pump and
> a talking continuous glucose monitor out soon.
> Take care.
> Dotty Martin
>
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