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    DIY Science

    Jun 30, 2019 4 minutes
    By Laura Tedesco and Penny Carroll

    For more than a decade, Dana Lewis managed her type 1 diabetes with an under-the-skin glucose monitor. When it pinged to indicate her blood sugar was low, she pushed a button on her insulin pump to deliver more of the hormone. But the alarm wasn’t loud enough to wake her, putting her at risk for a potentially deadly blood-sugar crash at night.

    Then, in 2013, a guy on Twitter showed Lewis a tech workaround to make the alarm louder. She was inspired. If she could fix that problem, could she solve others? Another member of the diabetes community helped her figure out how to get the pump and monitor

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