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Yeah I’m really good thank you

Yep all good now I’m now waiting for two new legs getting cast next Thursday .technology has improved vastly things are lighter . Which really helps . It doesn’t stop me doing anything , well I can’t dance too well but I never could anyway lol

I had terrible athletes and migraines right up until I got diabetes . Not a good trade off , dont get any problems with my feet anymore. Lol

They ask me how long I’ve had diabetes when I tell them 46 years they say you know far more about diabetes than us . That includes the DSN s To be honest with you I think they are glad it’s one thing less they don’t have to do . And I’m fine with that

I had my insulin in my go bag and I had a fridge in the room I was in. I kept my insulin with me. The hospital didn’t have anything to do with it . As long as I informed them when I gave myself insulin they were fine with it , to be honest if they weren’t fine with it , it wouldn’t have...

In the last year have been in hospital on about 5 occasions and every time I was asked do I self medicate I sad yes ALWAYS. They all said good, you know what your doing far better than us ( 46 years if I don’t know know I’ll never know) never had an issue. They did a blood sugar check once a...

I’m not sure if Timpsons is a Scottish thing but they do passport photos here in Scotland .I’ve recently renewed my license and for the first time in ages I had to send a new photo

I remember the Balance magazine use to have adverts for Holstein Pils larger , this was before they realised that drinking alcohol can drop your blood sugar , everyday’s a skool day

The problem I found with the glass and metal ones was as the needles got blunt they filled with skin so pushing the plunger became harder until whoosh the needle separated from the syringe and unless u had the scale facing you you didn’t know how much insulin you’d injected plus you stank of...

I still use the portion thing I actually had a list they gave me and how you could swap portions it was all about 10 g of carbs as it is today ,you can polish a t- #d but at the end of the day it’s still a t-#d

I tried to find something sugar free all I could fine was 1 Cal lemonade , Tab Cola and Orbit chewing gum abs obviously diabetic seeers which weren’t really sugar free

When I my mum asked why the disposable plastic syringes weren’t available on prescription she was told because they are a “ luxury “. Diabetics only got plastic syringes on prescription after drug addicts were given free syringes during the AIDS development.

When they got blunt they felt like William Wallace’s sword and I’ve seen it it’s taller than Mel Gibson lol

Should have been in the torture chamber in the Edinburg dungeons lol

I know this might not be popular lol but welcome to forum from an ex Swansea Jack living in Scotland you’ll find this forum with lots of good advice and great people