 Hi, I'm Adrienne Ackerman. My good friends call me 80. I'm 44 years old. I'm half Samoan, Kodamati, Kodo Australian and I have type 2 diabetes. Diabetes has a really big impact on people's lives. They have to think about it all the time. They have to think about what they eat, how active they are and if they don't have really good control of their diabetes the whole way through then it can cause lots of rather debilitating long-term consequences. My mum had diabetes. My grandmother had diabetes on both sides of my family. And it's hard. It's tough because you can't give it away. I don't have a choice now. SMS for BG is a program for people with diabetes and it's delivered solely by text messages. So it provides motivation and support for people to be in better control of their diabetes. I needed the trial to kick start me and something different that I hadn't tried. I didn't have a lot of blood sugar readings in my book. So we had a choice and I wanted to have the text messaging three times a day. What would happen is they would text me and it would say it's time to test your blood sugars. The feedback from people going through this program has been overwhelmingly positive. People really like it. They really feel like someone else is watching out for them, is checking in on them and if they want to they can respond to those with text messages with their actual blood glucose results and then we graph them for them over time. I felt like I had someone that I knew, like it was a friend that I was texting back, someone that cared about my blood sugar levels. I did the program for three months. Now I don't need the text messaging anymore because it trained me and now I remember to do my blood sugars again. So there's something about that frequent regular reminders and prompts directly to your own mobile phone that reminds you about the behaviour that you're trying to change or what you're trying to achieve. It seems to work really well to support people to make these major lifestyle changes. I guess I want to whip. I want to beat it. I want to be around for my own kids. But it takes a lot of planning. MedTech Core have certainly helped me be better, you know, managing the diabetes. Without all those people behind the scenes, I don't know where I would be today.