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SNAP - met another Libre user in the wild!

Snapsy

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Just wanted to share - in the changing room at the gym today I heard 'snap!' from another getting-changeder - I thought she might've noticed that Snapsy Mater and I were wearing matching cossies (coughs) but no, she'd spotted my Libre and wanted to show me hers!

We had a really really lovely chat about living with type 1 - it was a real boost to my day, actually.

I've met fellow Libra users before but only at a diabetes event, not 'in the wild' - until today. And I really enjoyed meeting this lady.

 
I was out for a walk with OH and a lady walking her dog came rushing across the road towards us. I assumed she knew OH as he's lived here forever but instead she wanted to talk libre with me cos her grand daughter has one. Lovely chat. First time I'd met another user at all.
 

I have only met one other too; in Tesco a few weeks ago, in the lovely weather, a lady was sporting her sensor loud and proud.

Actually, I wasn't wearing a sensor at the time, but I did speak to her; mainly because she caught me sort of staring at her in surprise. She was a lovely lade, I'd say late 40s-ish, only been diagnosed T1 and was in her second or third day of her very first sensor, so she had a million and one questions, most of which I could answer for her.

It was a bit bizarre.
 
haha @Snapsy
I was queuing up for a flight from Naples to Manchester back in May
when this bloke with a weird huge suitcase came into view -- but all I could see was the libre patch on the back of his arm -- so we had a chat and compared patches -- then went our separate ways !!!!!!

( you always start the best topics !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! )
 
haha -- not so Italian -- it was his mountain bike !!!!!!!!
 
himtoo said:
haha -- not so Italian -- it was his mountain bike !!!!!!!!
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Off-topic, so apologies, @Snapsy , but the only times I've had any massive curiosity at customs was taking a folding mountain bike through.

In the age on diabetes styleeeeee, of repeating something for certainty, I repeated the process a couple of months later, with another bike, and the same thing happened again. The bikes weren't in a hard suitcase, but made to measure padded soft bags.

Today's random factoid is that customs are very readily placated when taking a bike through if the bike tyres have some mud on the, Who knows when you'll need to know that?
 
DCUKMod said:
Today's random factoid is that customs are very readily placated when taking a bike through if the bike tyres have some mud on the, Who knows when you'll need to know that?
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Definitely worth knowing! I guess they need to be on the lookout for peeps concealing things in funny places - if I were wanting to get anything dodgy across a border I wouldn't want to secrete the goods within a grubby tyre, so in that respect they're probably onto something!
 
What a great wee encounter for you @Snapsy

Recently I was out on my motorbike and spotted a Nightscout window sticker on the car in front. So being a nerd, I followed them (spooky I know!) into a camp site but unfortunately they then crossed the grass towards their caravan and I couldn't take my bike there.

It would have been really nice to talk CGM and closed loop systems "in the wild" as you so greatly put it. And living where I do, finding another T1 is an accomplishment - let alone someone who is using a CGM and Nightscout! This forum is a great place, but nothing can compare to real life encounters with fellow diabetics. I can understand why it made your day
 
Brilliant
I am yet to meet another but one of my friends did. She had seen mine and at a half marathon she saw a guy running with a sensor on. I must admit it made me feel like part of a special club where those who know what it is can spot each other. I'm a bit ashamed to admit now that I wore my last sensor on my hip - I had got a bit sick of some people asking what I had stuck to me. I now think I might go back to being in the club!!

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Snapsy - It was more to do with importation tax. Taking in something new would incur tax (about the same as VAT in the place I was, whether or not a similar tax had been paid in the source country), whereas taking something used is more likely to be for personal, pleasurable use, and, depending on the detail, less likely to incur a tax.

I've travelled with some very odd stuff, including a yacht hatches, , over a metre square, or rudder spares almost as tall as I am, which caused no issues, because the supplier labelled and stamped them in a particular way.

It's all a game.
 
I saw a girl with a libre sensor on getting into the lift at work a few weeks ago, I assume she was going to one of the other companies upstairs because I sent round firm wide emails when I was running the bath half for Jdrf and got a few responses from people with partners/family member with type 1 but no one else actually with type 1. I've been keeping my eye out for her since. I've not actually seen a libre, because I need a CGM instead of a flash GM. So it would be great to be able to compare.
 
DCUKMod said:
Snapsy - It was more to do with importation tax.
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Oooooh I seeeeeeeee! Same reason why people buying their entire season's wardrobe abroad like to remove all the labels and 'wear' it for a few hours before packing to come home. 'What, this old thing, officer?!'
 
Snapsy said:
Oooooh I seeeeeeeee! Same reason why people buying their entire season's wardrobe abroad like to remove all the labels and 'wear' it for a few hours before packing to come home. 'What, this old thing, officer?!'
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Yougoddit.
 
A year or so back, first time I bumped into a T1D, not quite so 'out in the wild' as such, but at the pharmacy counter - as I seem to spend quite a bit of time hanging around said counter I'm surprised I've not noticed/spoken to more - but this young lady was also a Libre user, again on her first sensor and very excited to be using it - so had a very engaging and in depth conversation outside Boots about all things diabetic.
 
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