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<blockquote data-quote="rochari" data-source="post: 2289546" data-attributes="member: 68255"><p>Aye, it could be an adventure, Mad76. I worked regularly in Greece for 40 years and sometimes would have more problems with pharmacies in Athens than on small islands and usually for medicines that were not diabetes related. In the early days, there was never a sticky label attached to anything but you were given a handwritten letter-style note from the pharmacist. God bless hotel staff who'd to usually translate for me although over the years I was able to do that myself. </p><p></p><p>I remember once in the early days, on an old ramshackle ferry, sitting in a loo trying to inject my insulin. The seas were very rough and sea-water completely covered the floor of the gent's toilet, sometimes rising well up over my ankles as the ship heavily rolled. I think it was the only time I felt the hair rising on the back of my neck because I was convinced we were going to sink. Once insulin pens came around it was easy to discretely inject but in those days,with the glass syringes, usually a toilet was where I'd go to take it. Also, you never knew if food would be available on ferries and I recall almost always carrying packets of Greek-style digestive biscuits in my suitcase. Those were one of the few things that could be bought everywhere which were labelled with their carbohydrate content. Those 'saved' me a good few times.</p><p></p><p>Bill</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rochari, post: 2289546, member: 68255"] Aye, it could be an adventure, Mad76. I worked regularly in Greece for 40 years and sometimes would have more problems with pharmacies in Athens than on small islands and usually for medicines that were not diabetes related. In the early days, there was never a sticky label attached to anything but you were given a handwritten letter-style note from the pharmacist. God bless hotel staff who'd to usually translate for me although over the years I was able to do that myself. I remember once in the early days, on an old ramshackle ferry, sitting in a loo trying to inject my insulin. The seas were very rough and sea-water completely covered the floor of the gent's toilet, sometimes rising well up over my ankles as the ship heavily rolled. I think it was the only time I felt the hair rising on the back of my neck because I was convinced we were going to sink. Once insulin pens came around it was easy to discretely inject but in those days,with the glass syringes, usually a toilet was where I'd go to take it. Also, you never knew if food would be available on ferries and I recall almost always carrying packets of Greek-style digestive biscuits in my suitcase. Those were one of the few things that could be bought everywhere which were labelled with their carbohydrate content. Those 'saved' me a good few times. Bill [/QUOTE]
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