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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lizdeluz" data-source="post: 886854" data-attributes="member: 32108"><p>Nearly snap.  I was diagnosed in 85.  I remember the colour matching of wiped blood sticks, I think.  I think urine testing was out of date by then (because it always entailed a few hours time lapse <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> ) and I remember being a bit shocked and a bit superior whenever some hapless nurse wanted to do a urine test on me! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite10" alt=":oops:" title="Oops!    :oops:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":oops:" />  I remember being pleased that I'd managed to cut blood testing strips into 4 with scissors, and then being told off a bit for doing it by my consultant with the comment that the results were probably not accurate anyway on such thin strips. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

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