« HHonestly, sometimes things go so well that I forget I’m sick. » To understand the smile displayed today by Paul Barraud, a 37-year-old from Gardois, you have to imagine the daily life of a person with type 1 diabetes since the age of 18: the foods that must be carefully weighed every meal. Pricks, several times a day, in the finger, to take a drop of blood and measure blood sugar, the glucose level. Other regular injections to inject insulin. Moments of despair and revolt against illness. Waking up in the middle of the night. Mood swings. The bouts of fatigue. The sudden loss of concentration. “In a meeting, it sometimes happened that I was absent and interrupted myself,” says Paul, a daily journalist. Free lunch.
Without insulin, he estimates his life expectancy would be “three months”. Today, the thirty-year-old says “relive”. His illness is still there. But this “expert patient” is one of the first to benefit in his department from a new model of so-called “closed loop” insulin pump, managed by an algorithm.
A miniature pump that looks like a patch
The pump itself looks like a large patch, which he places on his arm, stomach or thigh and changes every three days. “When she’s on my arm, I sometimes bump myself and remember she’s there. But on my stomach, I forget it! » Another patch measures the gl […] Read more
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