Recent Content by Grant_Vicat

Yes, I used to use a mirror, but it felt like trying to cut your own hair. I got used to it, so that I could give my fingers a rest!

As a pianist and organist I found that using the fleshy side of the finger tip caused fewer problems. Also ear lobes!

I think your assumption is spot on @LittleGreyCat but the last thing I would want to do is scaremonger. The other problem is that not all Type1s are diagnosed quickly enough. The immunologists told me that one of the reasons that I am not considered cured is that it is possible for diabetic...

Interesting @sgm14 ! I have classed myself as cured for the last 12 years in that I ended 54 years of injecting insulin by having a pancreas (and kidney) transplant. I understand the reasons that the Diabetes and Trrsansplant Departments do not class me as cured, but it certainly has felt like...

This brings back vivid memories of one of my aunts every Easter. She would hand Easter eggs to my brother and sister and then turn to me and say "You can't have these dear because of your diabetous". I wanted to speak to her in Anglo-Saxon, but "One doesn't do that, do we dear?".Bedside manner...

When I was 13 my parents set up a recital in our house for an American concert pianist. During the interval my father handed me a bottle of Diat Pils, which certainly lived up to this label. I drank it like water and didn't appreciate the second half!!

Did you have one of these @BruceT ? R.D.Lawrence invented the line diet (Lawrence Line Weight Diet) which was printed in this book: Congratulations in achieving 65 years - that's fantastic!

I never saw these @jaywak - maybe I had stopped getting The British Diabetic Association paper (Balance)?

Hi @Royjk and thanks for the tag @Antje77 Sorry to hear your news. Bearing in mind current views on the Eatwell Plate, it would be better to ignor the recommendations along those lines in this link. The importance of this link is the information on foods to avoid and phosphates in particular. I...

@larry0214 Welcome to the Forum.if you put the @ immediately before Naomi_Ruth you have a much greater chance of alerting her.

In addition to @EllieM 's great advice, it might be worth taking the medical letter as suggested and a translation into whatever country's language you might need. I made a great mistake in 1978 and wished I had done this. Google Translate was a long way off then! Enjoy your travels!

They were available at 20mm in the sixties and seventies. When I realized that I could be using 12mm I asked for the prescription to be changed. I would need to invade my loft to investigate lomger ones!

"Excuse me, is there a rat trap under the table?"

This will make eyes water: In the Science Museum Edited to add The Palmer Injector. I think in Glasgow Science Museum?

It's strange to think we wouldn't be here but for those. At the time I would never have guessed what improvements were to follow relatively quickly. Apologies to those who have already seen this, but it does show changes between 1959 and 1979: