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Tell Evan's story of getting diagnosed. How did you know?
- pixie stick made him tired
- two fasting blood tests
- phone call, "you have to take Evan to the emergency room now"

This is where we found out:
People with insulin-dependent diabetes have to test their blood glucose and give themselves insulin injections or infusions via a pump 24 hours a day every day in order to stay alive. Too much insulin can result in seizures, comas, or death from hypoglycemia, or low glucose levels. Too little insulin leads to devastating kidney, heart, nerve, and eye damage from hyperglycemia, or high blood sugar.

5 FINGER STICKS
or 288 DATA POINTS?

What does our story lead to? In my case, denial, then action. We were familiar with the disease. We knew we could manage it with technology.

I found a dad, also with a son named Evan, who decided to take action. He wrote nightscout, a monitoring application that took data from the monitor onto an Android phone through USB.

Now it has evolved to reading the REST API data directly from the cloud.

Evan wears a sensor, it's injected about weekly and stuck on his stomach or arm. It collects data continuously from interstitial fluid. He calibrates using finger sticks for blood glucose levels at least twice a day instead of 5 times a day.

You may be surprised that a parent and some code can make such a big difference, but with this disease burden the opportunity is huge and the motivation is high.

So once we received our new Dexcom, I installed the open source project after they found they could track the data using a REST API.

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