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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Penquin47210" data-source="post: 2192190" data-attributes="member: 387598">Some real memory jerkers here having been through King's College Diabetic unit in 1962 aged 11 and still will not eat rabbit 'cos I had sat down to eat and was told "Can't eat that 'till you have done your injection."Same meal was sat there stone cold 11/2 hours later after having been shown how to assemble glass syringe, draw up units of 80 strength soluble porcine (didn't know that at the time) and been shown how to use Clinitest kit to test pee..... Vigorous bubbling etc."You must eat it all as you have had your injection". Yuk as it had all congealed - sauce, mashed potato and unknown veg plus bony rabbit bits.......  Talk about developing a phobia in an 11 year old - that was a major event.Now on pump, with cgm and worried if deviates even a tad (which it does after meals - surprise, surprise). Old needles (Rocket or Luer fitting) lasted for a MONTH then returned to chemist to be resharpened (like corkscrews and needed screwing into skin), developing lumps etc. in skin. Aluminium guard to put over thin slice of WHITE bread onlyand that was cut down to size = one portion and allowed 6 for breakfast, lunch and supper and 2 for mid-morning, mid-afternoon and bedtime plus one for waking up ! Aluminium screw top container to keep glass syringe in (in surgical spirit). Boil syringe in saucepan once a week to keep it sterile (!), managed to boil a couple dry, then melt the glass...Getting a replacement rapidly was not easy as only allowed one at a time.British Diabetic Association holiday for one week at school near site of Great Train Robbery and going to Whipsnade School. Many other memories from that time but have now survived 57 + years on insulin..........Lots of memories of doing things that "you can't do that as you're Diabetic" - oh yes I can, and did and have the certificates to prove it..... some considerable changes in opinion, supported by some excellent Doctors in various places.</blockquote>

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