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<blockquote data-quote="kitedoc" data-source="post: 1833070" data-attributes="member: 468714"><p>Hi @ Captain_Sensible I applaud you from my perspective as a 51 yearer on insulin. As you might guess I use kite flying as a metaphor for balance. And a crash (hypo) is indeed a humbling. confusing and embarrassing experience and the see saw in BSLs that follows is a nightmare. I remember Clinitest and Testape, boiling up syringes and needles, rolling the syringes with Soluble and Isophane mixes. I met Stan Clarke, the expat Englishman who first made and sold glucose meters, in Sydney and was lucky to buy one of his 'mint' condition meters in 1980. (and have the scarred fingers to prove it) !! I have spent the last 7 1/2 years on an insulin pump which spared me from night hypos, 8 + insulin injections per day, enabled me to keep my driver's license and to complete employment through to retirement in 2014.</p><p>One challenge my real astute endocrinologist has set me is how to make diabetes fun. The opposite is easy to answer but not this. Any suggestions from your experience would be gratefully accepted. Best Wishes from Australia, the sun burnt country!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kitedoc, post: 1833070, member: 468714"] Hi @ Captain_Sensible I applaud you from my perspective as a 51 yearer on insulin. As you might guess I use kite flying as a metaphor for balance. And a crash (hypo) is indeed a humbling. confusing and embarrassing experience and the see saw in BSLs that follows is a nightmare. I remember Clinitest and Testape, boiling up syringes and needles, rolling the syringes with Soluble and Isophane mixes. I met Stan Clarke, the expat Englishman who first made and sold glucose meters, in Sydney and was lucky to buy one of his 'mint' condition meters in 1980. (and have the scarred fingers to prove it) !! I have spent the last 7 1/2 years on an insulin pump which spared me from night hypos, 8 + insulin injections per day, enabled me to keep my driver's license and to complete employment through to retirement in 2014. One challenge my real astute endocrinologist has set me is how to make diabetes fun. The opposite is easy to answer but not this. Any suggestions from your experience would be gratefully accepted. Best Wishes from Australia, the sun burnt country!! [/QUOTE]
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