AccuGo

If you haven't yet read last week's post: The Great App Competition, I would recommend reading it first.  Otherwise this post won't make a lot of sense.

Read it now?  Good. :)

This week I test the iPhone app AccuGo.  Here are the scores:

Easy to Use: 8

• This app was pretty easy to use.  It took a little while for me to figure out what to do.  But once I had it, it was REALLY easy. 

Amount of Food in Database: 1

• Unfortunately this app does not have a single food item in its database.    

 Exact Calculating: 10 

• This app was very exact in its calculating.  

 Score altogether:  19


So my general thoughts about the app:

• It's a nice easy app... if you happen to have the handy, dandy diet book around to look up the values for everything.  Basically you input the food and the amount, then you look up the equivalents per serving and it calculates it for you.  Which just makes it an electronic diet record/calculator.  You can however, input the food and amount and look up the equivalents later. 

So that's AccuGo.  Next week... PKUCalc.

The Great App Competition

There are apps out there designed to help you keep track of your diet.  When I searched on my app store I found 3.

(I own an iPad- and to find these 3 I searched "PKU" as an iPhone App.  Watch out for the Peking University Apps, they have the same initials.)

1. Dietwell PKU- "Dietwell is designed to assist the dietary management of PKU... This app guides you through your meals, snacks, and formula intake by offering phe, dietary protein, formula protein equivalent, and caloric intake for over 7500 food items..."
2. PKU Calc- "...This application is designed as an easy to use mobile tool to help you count protein in your diet.  It follows green, orange, and red foods analogy that you learn about from your PKU clinic team."
3. AccuGo- "AccuGo was designed to ease the day to day management of the PKU diet by providing a quick and easy way to track foods eaten..."

I downloaded all three.  Because I want to see which one is the best one. 

In fact, I decided to make it a competition!!!

To see which App is the ULTIMATE PKU APP!!!  (Not including any Peking University Apps. ;)

The contest will go like this:  Each week I'll use an app to count and follow my diet.  The one that racks up the most points in each category wins. 

The grading system will be a 1-10 system with 10 being the "best thing since microwaves"  and 1 being "this stinks".  Okay? 

Good.

The categories are:  Easy to use, Amount of Food Already in Database, & Exact Calculating (I'll also be keeping track of my diet on paper so I can compare the exactness).

Ready... Get Set... and we're off with me trying AccuGo first!

Who do you think will win?

The Bright Pink Room

This week my sister and I had Clinic Appointments.  (For those who don't know that's where the doctors check up on us and make sure we're healthy and adjust our diet to fit our changing needs.) 
They recently opened up a 2nd location that we (people in our area) can go to, and it was much closer to us.
 So we went to this new place.  And the visit was actually pretty good.  For the first time they split my sister and me into different rooms (in the past we had been together.  For moral support).  But this time we were split.  At first I was really nervous.  I was all alone in this hospital room... sitting in a bright pink room.  And there were all these forms I had to fill out... by myself... for the first time. 

Like I said, I was nervous.

The doctor (who was the same doctor that had been at the old place) came in and examined me.  We did the usual tests: holding the cold stethoscope against your back and chest and making you breath in and out, hand-eye coordination tests, reflex tests.  Then she asked me some questions, we talked about things.  It all lasted about an hour... maybe a little less than that.

After the doctor was the dietician (still the same person as at the old place).  I handed her my week's diet record.  We talked about eating habits, and formula habits.  That only lasted 1/2 hour.

Then I was done.  I was surprised with how smooth things had gone.  My sister was done the same time I was and we went to get our blood tests done.

The lady who did our blood tests was AMAZING!!!  I've had a LOT of blood tests done over the years, and with her I could hardly feel a thing!

Within 2 hours, we were done.  It actually was the shortest doctor's visit I've had in a while.  We've had visits that last around 4 hours before!!!  So that was good, and short.  Just the way I like them. :)

Don't get me wrong I appreciate my doctors and all they do.  I like being healthy.  But you can only sit in a bright pink room for so long.  :)

Again thanks for reading!  I love looking at my stats and seeing how many people are actually reading what I'm writing.  It feels like I'm actually making a difference.  :)