Don Weintraub is a technology marketing consultant and freelance writer living in Tel Aviv. Born and raised in the Motor City. He has an MBA in Marketing and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan. Ironically diagnosed as a T1 on Valentine’s Day in 1975, over the years Don has transitioned from Lente and Ketostix to the Medtronic Paradigm Veo pump and Freestyle Navigator 2.0 CGM.
I decided to take matters into my own hands and take advantage of the misguided system. I prepared myself to visit the ER with a blood glucose level under 50 mg/dL. In other words, I planned an insulin overdose.