Posted on 10/21/2013 10:03:48 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
A beneficiary of President Obama's signature healthcare law standing behind the president during his speech Monday in the Rose Garden nearly fainted toward the end of his remarks.
Karmel Allison, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes according to information provided by the White House, began holding the hand of a woman standing next to her at the event and breathing deeply.
Noticing the disruption, Obama halted his remarks to turn around, just as Allison appeared to be falling backward. Another event attendee braced her from behind while the president held her arm to prevent her from falling. A White House aide then appeared to guide her inside the executive mansion.
"There you go, you're OK. I'm right here. I've got you," Obama told the woman, who was wearing a bright red dress.
"This is what happens when I talk too long," Obama then quipped to the crowd.
The audience applauded Allison as she walked away from the event, and Obama then thanked the other attendees for assisting her to keep her from falling.
The Huffington Post and CNN identified Allison as the woman who nearly fainted. She was one of 13 individuals featured at the event, and part of a crowd that included "new registrants, small business owners and representatives from partner organizations" according to the White House.
"Allison recently began researching her options on CoveredCA and has publicly described her experience as finally feeling equal to others, including her young and healthy husband, when it comes to access to coverage," the White House said in press materials distributed before the event.
This fainting act is getting old!
Too bad she didn’t vomit.
“If all this is too much for you to absorb, follow our previous advice: Stay away from Healthcare.gov for at least another month if you can,” Nancy Metcalf wrote. “Hopefully that will be long enough for its software vendors to clean up the mess they’ve made.”......................
The stench must have been horrible. Or the smell of sulfur as the now dead former dicktator from venezuela once mentioned.
Just like when Zero was campaigning. Planting people in the crowd to “faint” at his speeches, in awe of The One, so that he can magnanimously give them some water.
Glitch care is here to save the day.
fake staged phoney
He really thinks the American people are that stupid.
(Did you notice obama turns to the women before she faints)
Like anyone with above room-temp IQ believes this.
Shove it, Obamadork, you lying piece of excrement.
How about contemplating a visit to the sun?
You can go at night so it won’t be too hot.
Really.
Who in the hell was the idiot that put this poor woman in the photo op? Then, Obama’s comments prove once again it’s all about him...these folks were nothing but pawns for his photo op.
Women used to faint in the presence of Der Fuehrer back in Old Deutschland.
His supporters are.
When she’s led away you see something on the back of her arm that might be an insulin pod.
I wonder if her fainting on cue got her $9000 deductible waved
Oh, please...
Hope she feels better soon.
My best girlfriend used to make her living as a professional “Fainter” for boy bands. It is an actual job.
“Women used to faint in the presence of Der Fuehrer back in Old Deutschland.”
Well, it’s a proven technique, and easy to arrange. At least he does not have people throwing down their crutches and dancing.
With the Beatles, though, many girls experienced bladder problems while screaming hysterically. That’s much more authentic!
This fainter is Karmel Allison, a blogger at “A Sweet Life”. It seems she has experience with web development problems.......
[SNIP]
“.........Because it is a limitation of measuring interstitial glucose, I forgive the Dexcom for its periodic diversions from blood glucose. However, there are some things I don’t forgive Dexcom for. Cardinal sins of technology. Which brings me to…
The Ugly
One of the things I was promised about the Dexcom was that their software and analysis tools were really helpful. Worlds beyond the Minimed software. That was exciting to me — I am an engineer and analyst by trade, and so I love graphs and numbers and statistics.
Does the Dexcom software live up to these promises?
I don’t know. I don’t know because when I went to the website to sign up and log in to upload my data, I saw instead a link to download the Dexcom software. “Uh-oh,” I thought, “Download?” And then I clicked the download link and was taken to a page with a single download button. “Oh no. One button. Why is there only one button?” And sure enough, when I clicked the download button, a Setup.exe file plopped itself onto my desktop.
My Mac OS X desktop, that is. I work with computers all day long. Between work and home, I have 32 GB of RAM, 5 TB of space (500 GB solid state!), and sixteen processors. I have access to three compute clusters, and I could spin up an infinity of Amazon EC2 instances if I needed them.
But I don’t have a Windows machine. Because this is 2013, and no software should be Windows only. Even Minimed had (after some time) a multi-platform web app– it was a crappy web app with Java applets, but it was at least a web app.
It’s 2013! I can send emails from my Kindle in the middle of nowhere, Finland! I can VNC to my computer at home from my iPad on an airplane! Cars drive themselves, for crying out loud! And you’re telling me you can’t make software that works on Unix systems? It’s not like this software is doing deep, complex stuff, either– you’re plotting data points and calculating trivial statistics.
Sure, Dexcom could argue that some 90% of computers still run some version of Windows. However, I would be willing to put money on the bet that the percentage of Mac users among CGM users is much higher, since you’re selecting for a higher-income, more-comfortable-with-new-technology population. Further, if you know you only have the resources to maintain one type of software, there is no reason not to build a web application in this day and age. Data security concerns have been addressed to death, and, hey, Minimed does it.
The greatest irony, of course, is that, as I mentioned above, the Dexcom G4 is clearly designed to look like an Apple product — and yet the software doesn’t work on the very products that Dexcom is imitating! It is incomprehensible to me that after so much time, money, and effort is put into building a device, Dexcom would embarrass themselves so spectacularly with the software.
Okay. Now that I have gotten that off my chest, let’s regroup and get to
The Take Home
If you’re a diabetic: if you don’t have a CGM, get one. Today. And if you get one today, it should be the Dexcom G4, without a doubt. In a few months, the new Minimed Enlite may be a competitor, but the Dexcom is pretty darn good today.
If you’re Dexcom: I know a lot of good web developers in San Diego County. Why are you not employing any of them?”
http://asweetlife.org/feature/comparing-dexcom-g4-platinum-and-medtronic-minimed/
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