You May One Day Shoot Yourself With a Laser Beam to Test Your Blood Sugar
For those of you that are lucky enough not to have to deal with it, diabetes means a lot of sore fingers. Diabetics have to routinely draw blood to test their blood sugar. My poor grandmother sometimes has to prick her fingers several times a day with a spring-loaded lancet, which leaves them raw and sore. It’s a pitiful scene. And I know that she’s hurting, because I’ve recently developed diabetes symptoms and had to start pricking myself. You don’t always get the blood the first time, sometimes you have to do it more than once. And since I’m not a free bleeder I have to set the lancet launcher to “Vlad the Impaler” deepness to get enough blood to work with. As a person who types for a living, I can tell you that banging away at a keyboard with recently punctured fingers is a woeful way to work. So when Princeton University Researchers say they might be able to offer a way to take the blood sugar reading with