Cumberland
Master
- Messages
- 14,659
- Location
- Cumbria
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
- Dislikes
- Foodwise Nuts & Mushrooms (Vomit)
Karen I’ve just watched the pile of leaves double today fassen rassen
cumbs im sick of clearing mine we have a big tree right in front of our house its massive and still got loads of leaves on it i go brush them up ive no sooner put lid down on garden bin and fronts full again logic tells me wait till all leaves have fell but i dont listen to myself .....come to think of it no one else does in this house
Well done melJust found out I’ve been accepted for training to be a volunteer community first responder - so excited!
Just found out I’ve been accepted for training to be a volunteer community first responder - so excited!
Just found out I’ve been accepted for training to be a volunteer community first responder - so excited!
Just found out I’ve been accepted for training to be a volunteer community first responder - so excited!
I think we have all encountered the over-helpful person who means well. And I recall a term about education called "the teachable moment". Opportunity, improvisation and creativity appears to be the key to education which 'sticks' with the pupil, whether it is intentional or accidental. When I was on MDI I can recall letting medical students practice giving subcut, insulin injections to me. They get little practice in this as nurses do most of subcut. or intra-muscular injections.Oh heck... the words "Oh, my mum has diabetes, I know ALL about it, plus I'm diabetes-trained, and I can inject you if you need it...." induced a most terrible attack of the internal hee-bee-jee-bees when an over-enthusiastic new colleague spotted my lunchtime check with student reading the number for me for his number reading practise for the day! In my world, we use anything to get education happening...
I pointed out all that was needful for anyone in my team to know was where the emergency cans of full-sugar Coke were, get Main Colleague if need be, (who I do trust in a crisis - and at the moment trusting other people is not easy) and if I were a medical emergency phone 999 - oh, and if it wasn't on me, ask a student where my meds bag was for paramedics information
Other colleagues assured new colleague there was no need to worry..., There may have to be more information imparted later, but I wasn't up to explaining the complexities of a LADA diagnosis on a 4.2 which was probably dropping.
Wow. Amazing news MelJust found out I’ve been accepted for training to be a volunteer community first responder - so excited!
Looks like a few of us are having issues with highs and lows over the past few days. In one sense that is good, it proves that no matter how long we have had had this horrible thing, no matter how experienced we are at calculating insulin to carb ratios, we are all human and make either small miscalculations or our bodies tell us its the body that is in control not us
On a personal level it makes me feel a little better knowing I am not alone. the only person who gets these swings for no apparent reason. You guys are always there to help support me and others through.
God if all of us experienced diabetics still have highs and lows, I wonder how newly diagnosed people feel
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