Recent Content by kmckinty

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    My first HbA1c result and new meter

    Hi I was only diagnosed in January and found testing no bother. For a while I wondered why I found it so easy when others seemed to dread it so. Last weekend I worked it out. As a teen I made my own clothes and spent last weekend hand sewing a load of centenary badges onto my camp blanket (I...
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    Sharps Box Disposal Nightmares!

    Re: Sharps Disposal - Help Needed Hi I was given a cute little meter called an Accu-chek Aviva Nano. It takes cartridges rather than single lancets. The needles are inside the cartridge and there are between 4 and 6 in each load. You pop it in and twist the pricker each use to load each new...
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    34.8? What does that mean?

    Actually I bought her a surprise bottle of her preferred brandy - she hates arranging flowers :)
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    34.8? What does that mean?

    Hi I'm an asthmatic - no not on the wrong forum. At Christmas, suffering from a bad chest infection, I was given steroids by a locum.... 1 week later I could not see more than five feet in any direction! I went to my optician who said I had gone about 10 years along the short sight progression...