A tiny device can help diabetics live with their disease
- russellgrace
- Sep 27, 2022
- 1 min read
Continuous glucose monitors have changed diabetic care, giving people instant access to potentially life-saving information about their health.
Summer Huerta was in the car with her family when she realized there was something wrong with her eyes.
Her husband, Ernesto, had pointed out a formation of birds. Her son, Leo, saw them too. But all Summer could see was a blurry patch of sky.
“I could not see one bird,” she said. “And that started to make me have this panic from the inside.”
Summer kept wiping her glasses, but her vision didn’t improve. She felt dizzy. When she returned home to Sierra Vista, she went straight to her eye doctor, even though she’d just gotten a new prescription. When he asked her which letters she could read on the chart, she said she couldn’t read any of them.
The eye doctor got up and gave her a hug. Then he sent her to urgent care.
There, the nurse pricked Summer’s finger to measure her blood glucose. She says the nurse told her that her number was 241 — a very high reading.
“I didn’t know at all what that meant,” Summer said. But soon, she would. Because that day, about 5 years ago, she was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.
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