Search Results

Interesting Marie. I use Fiasp, in a cartridge as I use a pen, and I’ve noticed it’s more temperamental in hot temperatures than Novo, and definitely much less bombproof than the Soluble in a vial that travelled around with me in the dry heat of the West African sahel.

Yes, it’s already pretty warm here. A Frio’s ready to store the basal insulin when I take the bolus insulin, in another Frio, to see the friend with the glioblastoma. She begins a new treatment tomorrow, with possibly nasty side effects, so I really don’t want to defer this chance to drink...

You’re much more law abiding than me @urbanracer when a hypo happens, I’d have quietly eaten a jelly baby and explained why if challenged, if my hypo brain found the right words. I found the tunnels at Dover Castle a bit sad, so much of humans’ history seems to have been involved in threats and...

I agree @jaywak, but so many seem determined to resist. This pandemic is certainly revealing a lot about humans. I want to say, @walkingman, don’t be worried about doing too much. As you can see from the answers here, we’re all finding our own ways to navigate through this and we’re all...

Hi @InsulinAddict1310. Glad to hear you’re now taking more care of the diabeast (I’m assuming you’re T1, am I right?). There are quite a few ways in which blood sugars can affect mood, in other words mental health. I think that most T1s will tell you that they feel best when blood sugars are...

Mornin’ all, mornin’ Karen the Early. Have a decent dog walking, snorkelling, working, cat herding, carb calculating, sugar monitoring day!

Have you tried using a bar soap like Simple that’s just what it says, soap. I use it to wash the area where the sensor and the KT tape will go, dry thoroughly, and make sure that nothing else is put on that patch of skin until the KT tape’s on. KT tape will work loose if it’s wrinkled, or not...

Stay safe in that uncontrolled surge!!!!

Oh how lovely to have a baby shark to visit @Marie 2! I know some people will think I’m daft, but for me baby sharks are sweet. Let us know the reaction to the photo if you share it. We saw a fair few babies in the shallows the shore side of a reef in our younger days. I think they head to...

Oh, and we’re both double vaccinated, but I know two people who’ve had vaccine breakthrough Covid in the last month so we’re still taking precautions. We may stop shopping at supermarkets if numbers rise again now schools have returned without mitigations against infections. I get very angry...

I’m T1 and over 70; husband’s also over 70 but has no underlying conditions that we know of. Like you, @walkingman, we were very careful earlier in the pandemic but we no longer wash items as I’ve been persuaded that it’s the aerosols from breath and not the fomites on surfaces that are the...

Good morning Karen, good morning everyone. Sun’s up and shining here, husband’s washing up, today’s going to be a good one! For everyone!

I agree! They’d even said yesterday that they had plenty of coats and jumpers to share if we wanted them in the garden. Oh well, live and learn.

Yea, coffee, secco, and when stress high subsided husband provided supper followed by a slice of the plum cake I made with our plums. Cat sat on lap. And all you lovely people. I’m ok now. Still a bit shocked by the way they behaved though. I’ve got a Hoya layering to take to a much more...

Thank you. Only other T1s and others with the diabeast or with a vulnerability can understand. Although there are, I have to admit, some with none of those who can get it. I worry sometimes that I may be cracking up, and then I come on here for reassurance.

It must be the don’t understand T1 day. I’m back from the get together with friends and wish I hadn’t gone, not because of the hour and a half drive (usually 25 mins), but because they’d all decided to eat indoors. I said no thanks and had a quick bite in the garden before coming home again...

I’m back. After such a lot of prevaricating and a bit of a sinking feeling about the drive, I now wish I’d stayed at home. A twenty-five minute drive there turned into an hour and a half because of road closures. When I got there the host had decided we’d stay indoors, because, they said, it was...

How long is it since you were diagnosed @kvetiny? I only ask because insulin needs can, I’m told, vary quite a lot in the earlier days. (I was diagnosed a long time ago and my own early experience wasn’t the norm). Your best recourse is to contact your DSN, doctor or consultant and ask for a...

I may have decided. I’m going to go, even though the main route there’s being repaired and it’ll be an ‘interesting’ journey. It’s a big garden, no one will be offended if my chair’s a long way from theirs (they’re a lovely noisy group who laugh a lot), I’ve an FFP2 for visits to the loo, the...

I agree, and for that reason I have an annual flu vaccine, and had all the required vaccines etc when I was working in West Africa. I still got malaria and amoebic dysentery though, the malaria pills were not effective, and the dysentery wasn’t nice. But I was younger then. Oh, and I wear a...