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"Secret orange juice drinking" lol lol lol. It's really shocking how some of us led a secret double life isn't it. Like i said before, it's amazing g how we didn't seriously damage ourselves. With the lack of technology and info back then nobody could have know how seriously high our blood...

Really made me chuckle [emoji1]. So, so very like my own childhood experiences lol.

Wow that does bring back memories! I only threw mine away a few years ago. I remember when the plastipak syringes first came out and i vaguely remember my mom having to buy them until they got put on repeat prescriptions. When my mom first presented me with the plastipak syringe i was very...

Are you telling me we could've made a fortune here??!!! [emoji15]

I've recently taken out life insurance. I think i clicked on a link on the diabetes.co.uk facebook page about the subject which directed me to a quote page via The Insurance Surgery???..... Something like that and they secured me a deal with Zurich. I pay just under £37 a month which to me is...

It didn't so much stab the finger as actually slashed it [emoji15]. Or maybe it was because i used to not pull my finger away in time lol. It was so brutal wasn't it.

RuthW, lol, it does seem crazy really. Like i said before i don't know how i managed 40 years with the condition when i remember how sneaky i was with sweets. Mind you our dog once ate a packet of biscuits and i got the blame lol.

Rochari!!!! I've found you!!!! I knew a couple of years ago I'd spoken to someone here and they'd told me there were 3 generations of diabetics in one house. What you told me about your grandmother really touched me and stayed with me. What a brave lady (and all those who did it without insulin...

OMG!!!!!!!!! I meant gyno related [emoji15][emoji85][emoji31] not hump. Honestly i hate autocorrect at times [emoji23]

Yes i get them, at least three or four a year and that's despite drinking lots of water, a healthy diet, exercise and (half) decent bg's. I got diagnosed with nephropathy back in '93 and luckily for me it's stayed at the high end of normal or just past (stage 3 I'm sure the doc once said) since...

I enjoy yours too RRB, very like minded hee hee. Yes 40 years and somehow still alive and kicking [emoji1][emoji106]

Oh my gosh yes Matt J [emoji1]

Oh my gosh!!!!!!!!!! Noblehead that photo made me tremble and howl with laughter at the same time. [emoji23]

They so would [emoji1][emoji1][emoji1]. I always felt traumatised after using mine, resorted to stabbing myself with those little steel lancets. Oh the horror lol

lol RRB, one can only ask [emoji6]

[emoji6] heh heh. Yes, back 4 years ago when my right first froze up my hubby used to have sympathy and massage it (my shoulder area RRB!) for me but 4 years on he just rolls his eyes lol. He is also having to come on daily walks with me since my heart attack so i daren't ask him for anything...

I also remember the first finger pricker........the autolet "slasher"!! Ha ha it was the skinhead of the finger pricking world [emoji1]

Lol i remember it well [emoji1]. Only posted on another thread about this earlier. Was diagnosed in early 1975 so had to use the clinitest stuff. The night before my childhood hosp appointments my mom would hand me the coloured pencils and i would have to make up weeks worth of little coloured...

Yes the dreaded bra!!!!! Terrible isn't it lol. My right arm is, very very recently, able to go to the top of my bum but my left can only get to the side. I started my cardiac exercise re-hab sessions last week and when they shouted "hands on your hips" i felt really embarrassed as my arms...

Ugh the dreaded glass and metal syringes [emoji31]. Needles the thickness of rope lol. I still can't stomach the smell of surgical spirit even now. My mum was always forgeting my syringes were boiling away in a saucepan and they'd end up black!!! I remember my mum sitting me at the table with...