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Isn't technology wonderful..

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Had blood test at 9:00am and just had text to say result is through. Check on patient access and there it is. HBA1c is 39.

You got to be impressed by that... the speed and maybe the number.
 
Congrats!
 
We get them done at hospital and get the result in 10 minutes!

Well done on the good result 🙂
 
Thank you Eddy/Sally. When you take into account that the sample could not have left for the lab until midday, to have the result in my hands at home by 3:30 is quite amazing. Thank goodness for the technology of bar codes and inter connected computers. Also got to thank the tech associated with this forum which largely accounts for the number.
 
Very impressed on both. We’ll done.🙂

Though I am betting you will get the hypo chat at your next review , my nurse seems to have conceded defeat on that one :D
 
:D Ljc. Had it at the last chat when it was 41! Think my data records should be good enough to show that that is not going to happen.
 
Well done, @Docb - 39 is excellent!

I had the hypo chat when mine was 42 ... 🙄 I mean, I do have a lot of hypos, but they didn't bother to ask how many I had, just launched into the "that's too low" speech - they didn't seem to understand it would be perfectly possible to have a HbA1c of 42 without any hypos at all!
 
TheClockworkDodo said:
I mean, I do have a lot of hypos, but they didn't bother to ask how many I had, just launched into the "that's too low" speech - they didn't seem to understand it would be perfectly possible to have a HbA1c of 42 without any hypos at all!
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Possible, but tricky. Easier for someone eating a low carb diet, I suspect, which (for T1) isn't that common. (It's their own fault for not making CGM (and Libre) more commonly available: the machine shows I'm spending just 1 or 2% of the time under 3.9, well below the suggested <5%.)
 
Sally71 said:
We get them done at hospital and get the result in 10 minutes!

Well done on the good result 🙂
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Wow. 10 minutes. That is impressive
 
Sharron1 said:
Wow. 10 minutes. That is impressive
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The local DSNs have a machine which does a test during your appointment, just using a drop of blood. (It takes a few minutes and is about the size of a fridge, so not portable just yet. Probably won't be, come to think of it, since you only want a test every few months.)
 
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