Helpful hint for blood testing.

[SockFiddler]

Is that a Spoonerism?

Cheeky but funny!

Seems the forum is divided into two main camps; the savage Finger Suckers and the more refined Tissue Dabbers.

Of course there's the outliers too, Trouser Wipers and... nope. Can't repeat what happens to the used strips in Scott C"s house

 

[Jaylee]

Is that a Spoonerism?

Not at all Mr Pot. Just welcoming & appreciating a different view from a new member..

Sincerely. @Sinulae it's great to see you here!

.... & as first posts go?

 

[Deleted member 308541]

Seems the forum is divided into two main camps; the savage Finger Suckers and the more refined Tissue Dabbers.

Gotta use a tissue as I take a blood anti coagulant called Xarelto, and sometimes the lancet hole just keeps on giving.

I hope those that wipe their fingers on their clothes are joking...

 

[librarising]

I just suck my finger!

Apparently my DNA is 5% vampire so sucking my finger it is for me too. The more the better
Geoff (still not hungover, honest)

 

[leslie10152]

In public I use an alcohol wipe, but when no one is there to witness....

 

[SockFiddler]

... in private, you feed it to your dogs to keep them mean?

 

[donnellysdogs]

FS for me too..

 

[Deleted member 308541]

you feed it to your dogs to keep them mean?

There are a lot of dogs in Canberra, mostly LNP politicians and Pauline Hanson of One Nation.

 

[Snapsy]

I don't get how the finger suckers don't leave little blood marks on everything for a while afterwards! CSI would have a field day!

Maybe I'm just not a very good clotter... Sticking with tissues!

 

[SockFiddler]

I don't get how the finger suckers don't leave little blood marks on everything for a while afterwards! CSI would have a field day!

Maybe I'm just not a very good clotter... Sticking with tissues!

This is why we can't be friends, Snapsy. Promoting negative stereotypes about the savagery of the FS gang. I can assure you, we only use the blood to mark our cheeks in traditional war patterns handed down by generations. Our linens and clothes are completely unstained.

 

[Prem51]

I suck mine, I don't want to waste any blood so I recycle it!

Recycling is good, but not if person has high bs levels, they might be recycling the glucose.

 

[Prem51]

I don't get how the finger suckers don't leave little blood marks on everything for a while afterwards! CSI would have a field day!

Maybe I'm just not a very good clotter... Sticking with tissues!

Saliva is a coagulant - it neutralises the anti-coagulants in the blood, so bleeding should stop.
Saliva is also anti-bacterial, acting as an antiseptic.

 

[Rachox]

Recycling is good, but not if person has high bs levels, they might be recycling the glucose.

Ok, I promise I'll only do it if the reading comes out low!

 

[Snapsy]

Thanks, @Prem51 ! Didn't know that - oooooh this means I might have to join the 'fingerlickin' good' gang after all..... And perhaps reset my pricker not to prick so deep!!!

 

[SockFiddler]

I knew you'd be a sucker for threatened social exclusion, @Snapsy

Now, about the hazing induction ritual...

 

[Snapsy]

I knew you'd be a sucker for threatened social exclusion, @Snapsy

Now, about the hazing induction ritual...

Oh you do make me laugh, Sock!!! Sucker indeed!!!


*braces self in anticipation of hazing*

 

[Bluetit1802]

Saliva is a coagulant - it neutralises the anti-coagulants in the blood, so bleeding should stop.
Saliva is also anti-bacterial, acting as an antiseptic.

Which is exactly why animals lick their wounds.

 

[Brunneria]

I'm now sitting here wondering whether i have a weirdly fast clotting rate...

Prick. Squeeze a bit (i know, squeezing ain't always ideal, but if i don't squeeze then the test ain't happening).
One tiny little droplet.
Applied to strip.
A quick lick.
On with my day...

There is never anything to mop up even if I had a tissue handy.

 

[Deleted member 308541]

Which is exactly why animals lick their wounds.

OK, so why do dogs and cats lick their backsides then.

 

[Deleted member 308541]

There is never anything to mop up even if I had a tissue handy.

Even with a tissue I have problems stopping the flow sometimes, I am sick of wiping blood off of my mobile phone after I have put the bgl reading in to Diabetic Journal.