Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The wire from the sensor dives beneath Charlie Kimball's skin in the back of the upper arm, so the seatbelts don't agitate it.
With the twist of a valve, the tube supplying him with water can flow with sugar water instead.
The crewman who changes his left front tire has been trained to jab him with an insulin pen. Or anyway, he's been trained to jab an orange; they're taking it on faith he could do it to a wiry 27-year-old athlete.
These are the little adjustments you make when you have Type 1 diabetes and you earn a living at 220 mph.
Kimball set out from childhood to drive race cars. The diabetes is just something he picked up along the way.
No, he says, it hasn't slowed him down. And maybe, for someone who injects himself with insulin four to seven times a day, it's made success a little sweeter.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...rts/Diabetes-doesn-t-hold-IndyCar-driver-back
Surely the "crewman who changes his left front tire has been trained to jab him with an insulin pen" has been trained to use glucagon, not insulin? I can't think of any situation where an emergency insulin injection would be needed on the spot at a race track - is he likely to suddenly get sky-rocketing levels that would need immediate attention like this? I doubt it. Dangerous mistake to make, reinforcing the misconceptions of Joe Public that a diabetic emergency needs insulin.
With the twist of a valve, the tube supplying him with water can flow with sugar water instead.
The crewman who changes his left front tire has been trained to jab him with an insulin pen. Or anyway, he's been trained to jab an orange; they're taking it on faith he could do it to a wiry 27-year-old athlete.
These are the little adjustments you make when you have Type 1 diabetes and you earn a living at 220 mph.
Kimball set out from childhood to drive race cars. The diabetes is just something he picked up along the way.
No, he says, it hasn't slowed him down. And maybe, for someone who injects himself with insulin four to seven times a day, it's made success a little sweeter.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...rts/Diabetes-doesn-t-hold-IndyCar-driver-back
Surely the "crewman who changes his left front tire has been trained to jab him with an insulin pen" has been trained to use glucagon, not insulin? I can't think of any situation where an emergency insulin injection would be needed on the spot at a race track - is he likely to suddenly get sky-rocketing levels that would need immediate attention like this? I doubt it. Dangerous mistake to make, reinforcing the misconceptions of Joe Public that a diabetic emergency needs insulin.