Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
For most of her life, Alecia Wesner has been haunted by type 1 diabetes, a disease that never lets her get a good night’s sleep.
But for nearly a week in November, she got the best rest of her life, thanks to a revolutionary smartphone tool that regulated her insulin pump.
Wesner, a 41-year-old lighting designer in Gramercy, leads a full life — she loves to travel and just signed up for a 100-mile bike ride. But her pancreas does not produce insulin, a hormone the body needs to turn sugar and other foods into energy. She wears an insulin pump that requires constant monitoring.
Wesner says she has to "be a mathematician," meticulously calculating how much insulin she needs throughout the day and into the night, when her glucose (sugar) levels dip dangerously.
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-sty...p-controls-diabetic-insulin-article-1.2095625
But for nearly a week in November, she got the best rest of her life, thanks to a revolutionary smartphone tool that regulated her insulin pump.
Wesner, a 41-year-old lighting designer in Gramercy, leads a full life — she loves to travel and just signed up for a 100-mile bike ride. But her pancreas does not produce insulin, a hormone the body needs to turn sugar and other foods into energy. She wears an insulin pump that requires constant monitoring.
Wesner says she has to "be a mathematician," meticulously calculating how much insulin she needs throughout the day and into the night, when her glucose (sugar) levels dip dangerously.
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-sty...p-controls-diabetic-insulin-article-1.2095625