The good old days, weren't.

[Jaylee]

I saw one of these guns in a glass cabinet of diabetic memorabilia at a diabetic clinic 10 years ago. Alongside an old clinitest urine kit box..
Never had the gun myself.

I learned on oranges whilst in hospital. My mum learned too?
I used to pull up the insulin with the glass syringe, but never had the guts to inject.
My mum put the needle in then I would push the plunger on the syringe & remove the needle.. (in the leg.)

After about a week of this practice. My mother said to me, “you need to take care of this on your own at some point. No time like now.”
After 8 or 9 days of diagnosis.

It does seem reasonable to resist the action to stick a large pin in your leg..

 

[Pipp]

That’s the one

“Get into orbit, orbit sugar free gum
It’s the coolest taste
That chewing gum ever had
And it’s kind to your teeth
And that ain’t bad”

I sang it too, before I got to this post.
Can’t work out which Beach Boys song it reminds @Jaylee of, though.

 

[Jaylee]

I sang it too, before I got to this post.
Can’t work out which Beach Boys song it reminds @Jaylee of, though.

I think the tune had a sort of “indie” vibe? Sounded like the keyboards where emulating an Electro-Theremin which was used in the beach boys recording of “good vibration?”

However.. @lovinglife you will never believe who did the chewing gum jingle…

It was performed by “The Cure?”
Yep, Robert Smith..

 

[lovinglife]

I think the tune had a sort of “indie” vibe? Sounded like the keyboards where emulating an Electro-Theremin which was used in the beach boys recording of “good vibration?”

However.. @lovinglife you will never believe who did the chewing gum jingle…

It was performed by “The Cure?”
Yep, Robert Smith..

Wow that’s one for the quiz bank!

 

[jaywak]

I had a hypostop wristwatch that I would wear when I went to bed that would sound an alarm if I sweated too much from a nocturnal hypo , I think that was about 30 - 40 years ago .

 

[Marikev]

Wow guys, what an incredible humbling thread. Hats off to all of you.
Very grateful to only have been diagnosed 3 years ago, and can recall at the time thinking I was lucky to have been diagnosed so late in life. I decided on diagnosis I would never eat anything labelled diabetic or inject insulin in a toilet, but it’s happened. And has caused consternation in waiters and maitre d’s as I trot off to the loo when the food arrives! I need to eyeball the carbs in the food before I inject! The menu made no mention of a pie crust on the snails.. where did that come from…no I don’t have an issue with the snails, or I wouldn’t have ordered them! It’s your surprise pie crust, that looks too delicious not to eat! since we were in a Paris restaurant on the kind of ‘gourmet’ level I had decided no insulin would be required. Have learnt that gourmet type food is often very lacking in the carbs department, have had to ask for slices of bread before now and woe betide any wait staff who try to remove my side plate and bread any time before the final dessert dish has been served!
Beware the new screening rules at some UK airports. No more liquids in plastic bags…instead empty all your pockets…and hold the contents in your hands! I just told you I have a CGM on my arm , in case you wonder what it is on the body scanner…and that guy over there has my two spare CGM’s, that he seems to understand shouldn't be going through the luggage scanner.
So how many sugar packets and clean and dirty tissues and wodges of toilet paper do you expect me to hold in my tiny hands? You are dealing with a little white haired granny, with T1D, recovering from a bad cold, who was fed something dodgy the night before.. OK Pat me down, don’t mind if I do! Anyone remember Crackerjack? Contestants had to hold a variety of objects without dropping anything?
Then when she had finally done I recalled my CGMs were languishing in security, panicked as couldn’t see them anywhere. On the plus side my ‘granny bag’ had not fallen foul of any contents rules, had remembered to consume the emergency juice. The guy insisted on my opening the Libre 3 boxes and swabbing the canisters. And I had remembered to write my name on them this time.
Might just have been my last foray ever through an airport!

 

[Phaid]

I seem the remember the Pils slogan as “all the sugar brewed to alcohol?”
In the advertising..

The Federation Brewery up here in the north east used to do something called LCL or low carbohydrate larger. We used to call it low cost lunacy.