I recently had a dream that I was attending the ‘Design of Medical Devices‘ conference at the University of Minnesota. I had no idea such a thing existed until somebody signed me up to their mailing list. I was hoping for a free invitation, but nothing ever came of it. Must have been someone’s idea of advertising.
In my dream, I was sitting at a table with a number of other people, all of us listening to presentations. One guy had designed a wireless blood sugar interest monitor. That’s right, interest. As in, how interested are you with your current blood sugar?
It looked just like a wireless router, hanging high on the wall just above a light, and it was giving this guy a readout of everyone at the table.
0% interested, 0.01% interested, 0% interested, then he got to me. 28% interested. Almost a third of my active brainpower was being consumed just worrying about my blood sugar.
I know it was just a dream, but I’d say there’s a pretty good slice of reality in there somewhere.
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Scott K. Johnson
Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in April of 1980, I recognize the incredible mental struggle of living with diabetes.
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I’d be interested in knowing what your blood sugar was during THAT dream
Me too Sara! Haha!
I wonder what the optimal percentage is? As in, enough attentiveness to make healthy choices but not beyond that?
Great question Bob! 28% seems a bit burdensome to me.
I got those emails, too! I wonder how they found us or why we randomly got signed up for them.
And more importantly, why they never actually INVITED us! I would have loved to go, and wouldn’t even have had to travel anywhere.
At $715 for the full event, there’s no way I could do it.
I’d wonder WHY you were that interested in your blood sugar – is it the reading or the idea of what your BG is? And just exactly HOW do those 0% and .01% managed to do that????
Made perfect sense in my dream Mike. That 28% is a constant under-current of concern/awareness of our blood sugar. As in, we are always using up a third of our brainpower just managing BGs.
Those other people? The 0% people don’t even have diabetes on their radar. The 0.01% person has had their doctor mention something about diabetes to them, maybe even using the “pre-diabetes” term or something similar.
I think I am more like 78% interested in diabetes but that is only 30% percent of the time.
I’m just wondering if the “BG interest %” is subject to the same 20% variation that actual BG meters allow.
But, personally, I find it works just the opposite. When I’m preoccupied with something (read “distracted”), it takes my attention away from my blood sugar. Only when I’m really bored to I pay close attention to it, because it gives me something to do.