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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yug" data-source="post: 2027173" data-attributes="member: 503929">I’m replying to Magicfirefly not sure if I’m doing right. Anyway I liked what you had to say!  I’ve been type1 since 1985 at 32 yrs old am now 66. I have found that ignorance is one of the biggest issue. I’m pretty quiet about my diabetes. I am very fortunate in that the only time I have hospitalized due to my diabetes was when I was diagnosed at the VA. Heres a syringe and Orange to practice with. I told them to keep the orange, what do I do. I learned both at work ( paper mill ) and at home or friends, family, that because I’m on the ground flopping around or just laying there tying to talk and it’s not working that NO I don’t need an insulin shot. At my moms once working on her sink laying on the floor and went into low bd sugar ( I can’t feel my lows anymore)  until I’m at 30 maybe 40. And I heard my brother saying his kit is here he needs a shot. Now granted we have our down moments but I know he wasn’t purposely trying to kill his big brother lol. Now at work one yr I had transferred to a department that had lunch breaks. And yes I worked most my 20 yrs there 8,10,12,14,16,hour days, swing or graveyard no breaks but we had time to eat. The one issue I had when I did have breaks,  sitting in the lunch room still in the 80’s  was this one guy told me to check my blood sugar in the bathroom. You can imagine how that went over!! It didn’t!!  I told him that I would never go into bathroom to check my blood. Well that got union and foreman trying to come up with a solution. And that was to send me across the mill to a paper machine foreman friends office just to check my blood<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />)) my work ethic didn’t allow me to take advantage. I’m 6’2” 190 my last A1c last week was 7.9. Which is good for me. I went checking my blood 5 to 10 times a day. Taking LANTUS and fast acting novo log as needed for many yrs to going to the Dexcom G5. For a yr? Then tried the 670 minimed pump best on the market. I was told. Tried it for close to 7 months and it was NOT for ME  I hated it. I won’t get into why right now. I am now back on the Dexcom g6!!!!  The newest version and I love it. I am very fortunate in that I pay for only my medications at a very very small co pay that to 10 month Vietnam tour. I will get into my reasons for my pump issues and reasons for my love the Dexcom g6</blockquote>

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