Before going to the Roche Social Media Summit 2011, there were groups and organizations and projects that I had heard about, but did not know a lot about.  One organization that I was aware of and some of the things that they were doing, primarily World Diabetes Day, but other than that, there was not much else.  The first IDF presentation that was given at the #dsummit by Isabella Platon, the Head of Communications for the International Diabetes Federation. I was not very impressed with at all.  I feel very disconnected with the IDF, and I do not like that.  I believe that it was Scott...

Some of you may have been aware that last week I was at the Roche Social Media Summit in San Diego, CA (Hashtag #dsummit).  For those of you that were there, I look forward to reading all of your follow up posts, please tag your blog posts with the hashtags so we can read them all.  To those that were not there, I hope that you were able to follow along with everyone on Twitter.  I think that next year there will be more of a focus on getting a better quality and less lag streaming video of the event. I am going to try my best to cover as many as the topics that were discussed as I can. ...

I have tweeted and posted a few times lately that I am switching back to the One Touch Ultra strips from my Freestyle Lite strips because the insurance company is charging 6 times the amount, $25 as opposed to $150.  I had an older One Touch Ultra Link meter from about 3 years ago that I had used a few times, but of course the battery was dead in it when I went to use it.  I was looking all over my house because I knew I had to have had another One Touch meter somewhere around the house.  And then I found it. This nice, small, convenient blue One Touch Ultra Mini meter.  I was all excited...

I mentioned previously that I was switching to One Touch Ultra test strips instead of using the Freestyle Lite strips.  The reason is that Medco changed the Freestyle Lite to a tier 3 which is $150 for a 90 day supply, as opposed to One Touch Ultra’s which are only $25 for a 90 day supply.  I called the pharmacy today to see what I had to do in order to get the new strips ordered.  It seemed like it would be an easy process.  The customer service rep was very nice and helpful, so thank you for that, because unfortunately there are a lot of bad diabetes companies out there, trust me...

Unfortunately, I have gone through one of those stages where I haven’t been online at all.  No blog posts, no tweets, no Facebook updates, nothing.  I hate when I go through these time periods, but sometimes it just gets tough to fit all this stuff into the schedule.  I have so much that I want to blog about and talk about, but just wish I had a little more time in the day to do it all, don’t we all though? Onto other things, I finally got my travel schedule booked for the Roche Summit.  I am excited and can’t wait to meet all of you who are going.  Unfortunately, I...