The same reason you don’t carry a camera, a music player, a phone, etc as separate devices in your pocket. Because it’s wildly inconvenient and super frustrating to swap between them. For diabetics in this case, you generally have two separate companies making the pump and the glucose monitor. So at that point you are carrying a phone around, a monitor for your glucose levels, and a controller for your pump. That’s three devices that you need to keep charged and on your person at all times. Not to mention they are generally not slim and sleek and easy to pocket.

The ability to swap between these from a single device and the mental offload that brings can’t be overstated.

That being said, people that use medical services on their phones should not do OS upgrades until they are notified by their makers to be verified and working and should be heavily tested before any updates go out.

This is what I recently did with my grandparents.

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We thought their little old dog was ready to go and didn’t like to see her suffering.

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The Nvidia shield is the android tv with google play services. It would be your drop in replacement for the Panasonic interface you are currently using.

Blockhead - The Music Scene is just incredible

When you first start it can relieve stress and be relaxing, but that is a trap. Those effects will fade and what will be left is a habit. A habit that your brain will do some pretty large mental gymnastics to justify.

This one is so ingrained in me that I didn’t even know I did it for the first 20 years of my life and couldn’t stop it if I tried