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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Avoid insulin shock and fix your clock
Diabetes and time traveling Palm devices are the subjects of this month's edition of Letters to the Editor. PalmPower's Editor-In-Chief David Gewirtz answers a distress call from a diabetic woman wondering if there's an application available that can help her track her medication, and Senior Technical Editor Claire Pieterek finds the solution to an undocumented Palm OS bug.
Diabetic needs help
I'm an insulin dependent diabetic who has to track medication, food amounts, and exercise throughout the day. I carry around a large book to write all this stuff in, as well as to refer to various numbers and sets of data. I think a handheld is the answer to my prayers. However, I don't know any smart, techie kids, and the local stores can't answer my questions about what to use either.
I want to find a device with a software program established by the glucose meter manufacturer that I could download to a PC. (When I asked them if they knew what I wanted, they laughed, said they never heard of the Palm device, and wished me well.)
I'm a great touch typist and need to write data quickly; data includes number, food types and amounts, exercise, etc. I also want to be able to track the information, graph it, and use it to manage medication doses.
I would appreciate any advice or suggestions you have.
Thank you so much,
Carole Jay
Editor-In-Chief David Gewirtz responds
There's a product that's designed for diabetes management that runs on Palm OS devices like the Palm IIIe and the Handspring Visor. It's called GlucoPilot and is available at http://www.dietlog.com/glucopilot.html.
According to the company's Web site:
GlucoLog is a diabetes management application for Palm devices. GlucoPilot increases your diabetic control by tracking your blood sugars, insulin, and carbohydrate intake. GlucoPilot allows you to filter and categorize your blood sugar records and compile reports, charts, and graphs.
Millions of Diabetics around the world check their blood sugar between four and six times a day and store these records in paper logbooks. A diabetic's blood sugar records are easily as important to them as their DateBook, ToDo List, or Addresses. GlucoPilot brings this record keeping and logbook functionality to the PalmPilot. GlucoPilot also adds features like pie, line, scatter, and histogram charting, filter by record type and category, and export of records in CSV (Comma Separated Values).
We haven't heard much from users on the product, so be sure to test it carefully. Let us know if it works for you.
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