Showing posts with label The elephant meter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The elephant meter. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

The first 16 hours...

Day 1 of project CGMS has started and it is off to a somewhat annoying start. Yesterday I met with Renee the rep from Minimed at Dr. Baker's office. We went over the details of wearing this monstrosity while she informed me that I wouldn't be able to swim during the monitoring process - sorry Coach! The device looks like this:


I think the information I'll get from wearing this damn thing for 72 hours will be fantastic but seriously can't they make it look like something other than a 1970s style handheld video game! The clip on the back is awful - I normally click my pump to the bottom of my boxers when I get home from work and toss on a pair of shorts - because of how heavy this thing is if you clip it to something upside down it will fall off. Minimed provides you with a sexy shower bag but since the meter is the size of an elephant it pulled my shaving mirror off the wall and fell out of the sexy shower bag - not a fun start to the morning. But in the name of research I'm willing to endure.

Cornell application goes in tonight, Darden (UVA) is still far and away the top choice but I need to make sure I cover all bases, doesn't look like I will receive an interview invite to Berkeley.