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Philip - Interview 02  

Philip - Interview 02

Age at Interview: 68
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 46
Background: Philip is a retired company director who is married with no children. Ethnic background/Nationality: White British.
Brief outline:Diagnosed at 46, Philip took metformin for 5 years and is now on insulin (NovoMix 30). He also takes amytriptyline, alloprinolol, simvastatin, bendroflurizide and atenolol.

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Philip keeps track of his blood glucose readings by putting them on a spreadsheet.

 



I've just written a little Excel package that I just, you know, put it on. It actually helps me to remember to do it, because I walk past my computer and I think, "Oh, yes, I must do that." So it's an aide-memoire really. But it also enables me to give the nurse and the doctors at the clinic accurate feedbacks of my last six weeks' readings.

So do you update it every time you take a reading?

Yes, oh, yes. It's an ongoing reading. It's only about six weeks now that I've been actually doing it like that. Because my testing kit actually has a memory on it and we could, if they wanted to, I could take that in to the clinic and they could actually print a readout of all my readings over the last six months. But they don't.
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