Well, here’s the deal on the Glucowatch.
The guy who runs the insulin pumpers list (whom I have a problem with anyway) claimed he had a working Glucowatch that people could try.
So I told him to send it and ordered a minimum order of autosensors.
However, when it came, it was missing 5 components: the recharger, the self test unit, the autosensor press, and the batteries. Batteries wasn’t a problem, it has two rechargable but takes a regular AAA.
The problem is, you can’t make it work without the autosensor press.
It wasn’t a complete waste, because I got to see the video tape, which was well done, and reasonable. I didn’t open the other materials, as I figured out pretty quickly it wasn’t going to work.
So I called the Glucowatch people and was going to cancel the autosensor order but they had shipped the day before. So then I decided to bite the bullet and buy the watch.
Friday arrives — two days after the “temperate sensitive” auto sensors were supposed to have shipped and NO sensors. And Diabetic Promotions is out of the office at 4:00 pm Friday (EST). I don’t even get off work until 4:00 pm Friday on (CST), so that was problematic.
I phoned first thing this morning, ready for a battle, but yes, they had shipped, and UPS lost the order! I wasn’t completely convinced until UPS called, so now I’m waiting for both the watch and the reshipment of the autosensors.
And so far, Diabetic Promotions have been okay to deal with.
Going through the Glucowatch 1-800 is hookie, because they are on California time, and don’t answer to 10, and Diabetic Promotions are on Eastern time, so I’m not even going to mess with the Glucowatch 1-800 from now on. Especially since before 8:00 am our time is an ideal time for me to mess with stuff like that.