Category 4--Record keeping: most people do not enjoy record keeping and writing blood sugars in those generic logs that the pharmaceutical companies used to hand out. A diabetes care team likes to have written records available so when the computers crash and you have forgotten to download blood sugars at home, the data is still available. Do something creative, like using your iphone to record blood sugars, or store the information in an ipod or cellphone, palm pilot. If you do like notebooks, get one with the Jonas brothers on the cover or a baseball scorecard and instead of scoring the game: score blood sugars! Some of my families use stickers in notebooks for the younger kids as a blood sugar tracker.

Finally, continue to think out of the box and brainstorm ways to identify, carry, wear, store, and record all diabetes related accessories and information. Together we could really come up with novel ideas!  I would love to hear your solutions to these pesky problems!