One of the factors in the application for the tax credit was how much time it takes. I don't think they calculate into that or allow on that tax credit calculus the time it takes to check your finger prick 10 times a day and to change.... I don't use that system anymore, since I have the glucose monitor, so my time frame is much less in that respect, but the actual time it takes to monitor and look after your diabetes, especially with type 1, is 24 hours a day, because it can never, ever, leave your mind. My phone is always buzzing, and, my God, the thing I used to fear the most before I got a continuous glucose monitor was going to bed at night, because I would be stressed every night going to bed wondering if I was going to wake up or not.
The way they calculate it for the tax credit is actual physical this, that and whatever, but the mental stress is a 24-hours-a-day calculation that doesn't come into the equation whatsoever.