This week’s post features Kanoa Jones and Brayden Kulych.
Kanoa has been wearing a CGM for a little over a year and calls the device “a game changer”. As his employment requires constant adherence to safety, his CGM keeps him in line with his high safety standards. It alerts him to impending low glucose, which is critical on a worksite. It also helps him get a good night’s sleep as he no longer has to wake up many times a night to check his glucose.
Like Kanoa, Brayden’s employment requires constant adherence to safety. As a Registered Nurse that attends to patients with many different needs, Brayden doesn’t have any room for mistakes. His CGM keeps him alert and present to the situation in front of him, as the device provides him with notice when he is going out of his target glucose range.
Hypoglycaemic episodes may further lessen an individual’s capacity to recognize an impending hypoglycaemic episode. This is one of the many reasons why it is of critical importance to consider CGMs within diabetes management in adults. T1D doesn’t turn off at a magical age threshold and all persons with the disease deserve the chance to live a full, productive, and engaged life.
Feel free to comment below on how CGMs can benefit adults with Type 1 diabetes.
The Yukon T1D Support Network commends Yukon Government for their commitment to ensure persons with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) have accessibility to the devices that assist in glycemic control. Through Yukon’s Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) pilot projects for children up to age 18 and young adults 19 – 25, not only have young Yukon citizens received devices that have greatly improved their quality of life, they have received a technological intervention that reduces future microvascular complications.
With the pilot project nearing completion, Yukon Government is in the position of determining if they are to be stalwarts in T1D management, a favourable and progressive position that serves the sole purpose of empowering their T1D residents. The Yukon T1D Support Network urges Yukon to continue their investment in the health and well-being of persons with Type 1 Diabetes through permanent coverage of CGMs for all those with T1D. We thank those individuals and organizations who have been, and continue to be, ardent supporters in our quest to have all persons with T1D have equitable access to these life-saving devices. Over the next several weeks, the Yukon T1D Support Network will highlight quotes from these sources.
