Just before lunch this afternoon I checked out the new FreeStyle Freedom Lite blood glucose monitoring system from Abbott Diabetes Care. The company's public relations firm, Fleishman-Hillard, was nice enough to send me one of the first of these cute little meters and 10 test strips.
After
carefully washing my hands, I quickly used one test strip for each of
my 10 fingers. Within 20 minutes I had used them up. In that period I
also used up my patience with this meter.
In
that time I didn't eat...
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