After Angela McMaster’s six-year-old son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, she started waking him up twice during the night to check his blood sugar. That meant pricking his finger with a needle — not a pleasant experience at any hour.
Five years later, McMaster is still checking on Jackson in the wee hours, but he never knows it. Through a Facebook forum, she discovered a device that draws blood painlessly and happened to have been invented locally, by Christopher Jacobs of West Linn.
“Instead…
After Angela McMaster’s six-year-old son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, she started waking him up twice during the night to check his blood sugar. That meant pricking his finger with a needle — not a pleasant experience at any hour.
Five years later, McMaster is still checking on Jackson in the wee hours, but he never knows it. Through a Facebook forum, she discovered a device that draws blood painlessly and happened to have been invented locally, by Christopher Jacobs of West Linn.
“Instead…