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Things everyone thinks are gross unless you’re T1D...

The vampire lick is the main thing that I think is universal.
If I cut my finger, for example, I suck it to get any dirt out.
This also involves ingesting my own blood.

My testing kit has a chopped up sheet of kitchen roll in little squares to mop up random blood, but then I don't test all day every day.

As for the floor, even if the 5 second rule doesn't apply I tend to pick stuff up and wash it under the tap instead of binning it.
Wouldn't work for glucotabs, though.
 
Mel dCP said:
I turn to ash in the sunlight. Haematophagy is nothing! Maybe I was a vampire all along
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Well, if I recall your photo from the steampunk event correctly, your taste in clothes isn't a million miles away from Nadja's so maybe there's something you're not telling us!

I go from freckled white to bright red then my skin peels off but it's more to do with Celt genes than the demonic underworld
 
I’ve never done the vampire thing. But I used to do the werewolf thing but I’m alright noooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Sorry, it’s the wine.
 
I was utterly relieved to see a T1 colleague, who's never been on lunch duties at the same time as me before last week or worked in the same areas so we rarely get more than a passing moment or two to chat, do the vampire lick! My students have been telling me off for it for a few months now or wondering if there are any nutrients in the blood.
 
LittleGreyCat said:
The vampire lick is the main thing that I think is universal.
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Lol, LGC, now that you're using libre, get ready for a "bleeder"!

Occasionally, the insertion needle will hit a cluster of capillaries/arterioles and you can get an impressive amount of blood coming out of the hole in the middle of the sensor, I once ruined a white shirt that way by not noticing it before I put the shirt on.

The amount of blood can look quite dramatic but it settles down ok within a few minutes, and many say a bleeder is a better reader.
 
What sometimes comes out of the hole is nothing compared to the bleeder I had when a friend trimmed the raggedy edges of my tegaderm patch with the kitchen scissors without her reading glasses on . And I couldn't even lick it because back of my arm, nor did it improve the readings of my sensor.
I can assure you fingerpricks hurt way less than a libre when your friends think they can still see without glasses.
 

This guy definitely didn't read the libre application manual:

 
This whole thread has given me a laugh too but has left me wondering:
Am I a closet deviant T2 vampire? - I've always licked my bloody finger after testing as AFAIK lick (AKA saliva) is nice and antiseptic.



(I have a little dog too with slight tendencies towards vampirism: my current light green fabric covered meter case gets little spots of blood over it and he found it one evening and very kindly spent a good half hour industriously licking a good part of it clean for me.)

Robbity
 
Robinredbreast said:
..................... and doesn't look like there is a spot of blood on him, or is it my eyes ? lol
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He gets a lot messier later on when he says to the mockumentary camera crew, oops, made a basic vampire mistake, bit the wrong artery, and then spends a stack of time figuring out which domestic cleaning products will sort it out before his housemates complain about the mess...

That roll of kitchen towel might do it...

 
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This was really funny!! And sadly too true!
I love finding all the melted and welded together, powdered or unidentifiable things I thought would be good for a low and then found them later at the bottom of my purse.
Thanks Mel dCP!!!!
 

Yikes, that was a bit of a shocker @ 7.15 this morning lol let's hope he has lot's of said kitchen roll, as he will need 'Plenty' of it
 
Hi,

The "vampire" thing I do..

If I get a rare bleeder from an injection site, I hoik up the waist line on my undies & mop it up off my stomach rather than get it on a shirt. If it happens on my leg? The hem line of my boxers..

I dunno about "gross," but I once dated a goth girl who thought my D business with inpalment & blood letting interesting...
It was nice she didn't flinch, however I wasn't a freak show either.

Off the floor? The dog would get it before I did.

Many years ago (early 90s.) I did a season on the south coast in a holiday camp. Part of my duties was entertaining kids & organising events.
I used to carry treatment in the pocket of the blue jacket I wore as part of the uniform. It was a little more difficult if I was running about dressed as an elephant..
Quite often I'd put my hand in & find a make melted sticky something that shouldn't be there mixed with my wrapped official stuff.
I didn't notice during the day, the kids used to sidle up & slyly slip sweets & folded up drawings of eliphants into my pocket..?
Which was a little messy in the haste of treating a hypo.

... Good job I wasn't carrying my wallet.
 
Was licking blood this morning

Never forget treating a hypo whilst out at my shooting club, I tipped the glucotab tube directly into my mouth and out came a cloud of Gluco dust which landed all over my face and clothes, I became paranoid that it looked like i’d got a drug problem so was frantically trying to dust myself down, fortunately no one commented..
 

Oh no !! I don't know whether to give you a funny emoji or a hug one, so have a fuggy
 
An old grey glucose tablet, half covered in white and purple end-paper with added pocket fluff, yum.
 
Another vampire here! I get revolted looks in my office when I test at my desk, doesn’t bother me! My blood, I’ll lick it if I want to!

Oooh I haven’t had a gusher in AGES! Maybe because I am a stingy Scot and it’s like get blood out of a stone with me.
 
finger lickin' good here too though FSL underarm swipe must look weirder to the non Ds i.e. hold phone until a beep is heard, curse when beep is a scan failure then sigh looking at the 'mountain range' graphic (Lord of the Rings type landscape unless I am asleep normally) Btw is this Mrs Widdecombe or Camilla Windsor?
 
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