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WuTwo said:
Glad the world is a better place for you now Knikki. It's easy to go into that spiral of despair and depression. I know, I've just come up for air from one that lasted months. Focus on the good, and on finding something to make each day feel worthwhile.

Turning to the ever present diabetes, I officially hate tramping round the huge supermarket we use. Today I went really, really low in the store. Sit down on the floor low. Luckily I had some sweet biscuits so I sat there munching frantically... My awareness is usually quite good so I have no idea what went wrong today. Home now, and looking forward to a hummus & falafel wrap. Bit carby but I seem to need it at the mo.
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Hi,

& good morning. I feel supermarket.environments are designed to "overload" consumer awairness?
Products ar litterily shouting amongs other shouty stuff. So the practice of consumer searches is a little like searching for a loud needle at a rock concert...

This don't help when low. I also heard somewhere. "Never do the shopping when you're hungry."

I empathise with the situation. My wife & I try to get the chore over with as quick as possible.
I got caught out with a drop once. My wife found me staring at a 12" action figure of a "Stromtrooper" a couple of christmasses ago?
My minset at the time was trying to work out how many carbs it contained in the head...?

Lucky I carry stuff with me. Sligtly more accessible Jelly babies.
 
@WuTwo it's a well known fact that food shopping can cause hypos, well it does for me and was discussed on the forum before and the general consent was it does seem to lower peoples BG. When ever I go shopping, especially with the wife, it drops but she always makes me test before hand and take carbs if below 6, and if 6 or above she'll check i have glucotabs with me.
 
WuTwo said:
Glad the world is a better place for you now Knikki. It's easy to go into that spiral of despair and depression. I know, I've just come up for air from one that lasted months. Focus on the good, and on finding something to make each day feel worthwhile.

Turning to the ever present diabetes, I officially hate tramping round the huge supermarket we use. Today I went really, really low in the store. Sit down on the floor low. Luckily I had some sweet biscuits so I sat there munching frantically... My awareness is usually quite good so I have no idea what went wrong today. Home now, and looking forward to a hummus & falafel wrap. Bit carby but I seem to need it at the mo.
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Oh no, these wretched hypos are the stuff of a bird-flip to social niceties aren’t they. I remember people’s astonished looks the time I ended up sitting on the kerb with my feet in the gutter while I shoved carb in me. Did no one ask if you were ok!
Glad you’ve recovered.
 
Yeah I have one or two scary hypo things from the past but it happens you learn and move on :)

Oddly I love shopping, cloths, useless tat I don't need, unless things I do need, shopping with Mrs Knikki its all fun, its what I spend most of the day doing just mooching around shops online :hilarious:
 
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Fairygodmother said:
Oh no, these wretched hypos are the stuff of a bird-flip to social niceties aren’t they. I remember people’s astonished looks the time I ended up sitting on the kerb with my feet in the gutter while I shoved carb in me. Did no one ask if you were ok!
Glad you’ve recovered.
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My husband was with me so he stood guard, and passed me oat biscuits whilst I stuffed them down like a starving woman. I got some extremely odd looks but no enquiries. The looks were more "Well, couldn't you have waited until you got home before eating?" than "oh dear, can I help?"

Edited to add: Can't say I blame them, on balance!
 
Knikki said:
Morning one and all.

Guess I will mention this but earlier in the week was in a kind of dark place and was within 5 minutes of requesting my account be deleted.

But things have changed, as they so often do in my world which is rarely is in real world, and I didn't delete so will be around to annoy you for a little longer.

Bloods rather dull bit a fight yesterday but nothing that a gallon of insulin and creative curses cant sort out.
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Hi @Knikki glad you are still with us on this part of forum. Some other parts can be a bit Meh. Hope you are OK now.

I really appreciate the advice and the banter on here it has been valuable when I am looking for advice or just a laugh. I have never met anyone on this forum before but the welcome i was given and ongoing advice keeps me going when things are not going well. Even if its just to vent my frustration i have this forum where i can rant and let off some steam.

Am i allowed to award a top banana award for @Knikki:):)
 
Robinredbreast said:
Happy Wednesday to you all, my grass at the front needs cutting, some food shopping to do and I need to get another Tesco mobile top up card for new phone, as I topped up my new phone on Monday morning, with the old one, so no credit :oops::oops::rolleyes: Hope I can get it transferred over :)
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Went to my small Tesco Metro store to ask about getting a top up card for new phone also the balance transferred to my new phone. I must say, talking to 2 staff and on the phone to customer service was very good, they were very helpful and friendly and my £15 was transferred to my new phone and a new top up card will be posted to me in the next couple of day's. Brilliant service from Tesco Metro in the town centre, so they get my Top Banana award :) :happy:
 
Just on lunch, got spotted scanning my Libre by a lad in my class. “You got diabetes, Miss?” We had quite a chat about all my tech and stuff, his five year old sister was diagnosed at two. So now all my class knows I’m a cyborg.

One lesson to go...
 
Mel dCP said:
Just on lunch, got spotted scanning my Libre by a lad in my class. “You got diabetes, Miss?” We had quite a chat about all my tech and stuff, his five year old sister was diagnosed at two. So now all my class knows I’m a cyborg.

One lesson to go...
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Awww, my granddaughter was diagnosed at 2, 1/2 yrs, he sounds a lovely lad.
 
I fell flat on my bum at Birmingham Airport station and was immediately surrounded by concerned people. I said "I'm T1D" and the response was truly astonishing......... train staff brought me full sugar coke and biscuits right away and waited with me. Didn't have time to get out my fruit pastilles. The kindness of strangers is lovely. Like the kindness of people here. Thanks again everyone for just being around, I've appreciated everything in my 19month rite of passage.:):):):):)
 
Mel dCP said:
Just on lunch, got spotted scanning my Libre by a lad in my class. “You got diabetes, Miss?” We had quite a chat about all my tech and stuff, his five year old sister was diagnosed at two. So now all my class knows I’m a cyborg.

One lesson to go...
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Could go one of 2 ways Mel.....you could now be super cool "cyborg" teacher OR you could become "junky" teacher!!!! Junky was one of my many nicknames in school!!!!!
 
SueJB said:
I fell flat on my bum at Birmingham Airport station and was immediately surrounded by concerned people. I said "I'm T1D" and the response was truly astonishing......... train staff brought me full sugar coke and biscuits right away and waited with me. Didn't have time to get out my fruit pastilles. The kindness of strangers is lovely. Like the kindness of people here. Thanks again everyone for just being around, I've appreciated everything in my 19month rite of passage.:):):):):)
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It must of been scary but take care and get back on your feet soon.

Lovely, warm, friendly, helpful and supportive member's on here, to help each other out, with some looney tunes too :D and I love em' :D <3
 
Robinredbreast said:
It must of been scary but take care and get back on your feet soon.

Lovely, warm, friendly, helpful and supportive member's on here, to help each other out, with some looney tunes too :D and I love em' :D <3
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@Robinredbreast it was a while ago so I'm OK but I've always been worried about travelling on my own and this really affirmed what I've always believed. Nice people always help and nice people are in the majority. Agree with you about everyone here. Super!!
 
This might be the last post on this here page and note we have finally reached half the number of the devil at 666

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@WuTwo do you carry fast acting sugary stuff to treat hypos? Biscuits tend to contain fat which will slow down their speed. I rarely leave the house without GlucoTabs in my bag or pocket. I know others use Jelly Babies ... and they are so important to @Capt-Slog that he has been experiment on them in the microwave to extend their logevity.[/QUOTE]

I normally have Glucotabs but I changed handbag this morning and forgot to include the tube with the rest of the stuff I shove in there. I've put some in there now haha!

It's a "new to me" bag I got from Animals in Distress charity shop on Saturday. I love it - sort of dusty pink canvas with a bit of a used look to it. Just my cup of tea :happy:
 
helensaramay said:
Just wondering if we lost any contributors from our gang over the weekend. I have not seen anything from Scott C and I don't seem to be able to tag him any more.
I miss his techy talk interspersed with bar stories.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Scott-C realised life was too short for forum politics and went for a steak bake.

Glad you've decided to stick with us for now @Knikki.
 
WuTwo said:
@WuTwo do you carry fast acting sugary stuff to treat hypos? Biscuits tend to contain fat which will slow down their speed. I rarely leave the house without GlucoTabs in my bag or pocket. I know others use Jelly Babies ... and they are so important to @Capt-Slog that he has been experiment on them in the microwave to extend their logevity.
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I know the theory that biscuits are slow to hit hypos, but I normally use them. Jelly babies when it's a proper problem (crashing while running or something like that), but most hypos are rather milder and amenable to my standard milk + chocolate digestive (dark, not the horrific milk ones) combination.
(yes, this does rather hinge on what do we mean when we're talking about a hypo? Is it the medical "below 4.0" one, which includes really mild ones, or is it the proper sweaty faint-feeling ones which lead to sitting down in the supermarket. Biscuits for the former, jelly babies for the latter.)
 
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