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Type 1'stars R Us


You could save it up in an old vial and create
1. Money-making conceptual art
2. Mini sweet black pudding
3. Confusing Artifact for archaeologists of 3019

Glad to hear you’re doing your bit to save the NHS money
 
You’re right, @smc4671, T1 is a pain and I guess we’d all rather be without it. It messes up lives, and we lose precious time to hypos and hypers and to all the checking, rechecking, watching, calculating etc etc.
I suppose the good things to grab hold of are that we’re all still here, we can enjoy what’s good with the added sparkle of knowing that life’s fragile and we’ve got T1 at a time in history when the med and tech’s advancing. And we can use the tech to share with other lovely, funny, supportive, understanding T1s. Be nice though if we could all be rid of T1.
Happy Diaversary, enjoy the sunshine!
 
Hi @Cumberland, Nice and windy in Adelaide, just right for the kite festival here at Easter.
Please let your sister and BIL know that the kite festival at Semaphore Beach, starts 11 am each day
Easter Sat, Sun, and Monday. Easter bunny will also make appearances !!!
It shall be very crowded for parking by 11 am and jam packed, weather permitting of course !!
 
@smc4761 happy diaversary to you. How horrible to lose your ideal job after diagnosis.

You brought back some memories. I was sent home from a Glasgow hospital a couple of years before you. The glass syringe with javelin needles took my breath away. Were you, like me, prescribed inch long needles (24mm) instead of the usual half inch ones (12mm)? I shed lots of tears, watching the needle bend as I tried to use my glass syringe for the first time.

I've always wondered if the hospital had run out of the blue plastic containers for the syringe. I was told to ask my GP to prescribe the container but he said he'd never heard of it, and I would have to get it from the hospital. (My GP was a bit of an idiot but I couldn't believe that I was the only Type 1 diabetic he had on his list.) Eventually a doctor at the clinic wrote down the name of the container and I gave this to my GP. He still maintained that he'd never heard of it. The same clinic doctor told me I should've been prescribed half inch needles rather than the one inch ones.
 


I cannot recall the size of needles, just know they were huge. Ignorance about diabetes was pretty rife back then. We have changed and learned so much in the years that followed

One thing I used to hate was going to diabetic clinic at hospital. About 40 of us would turn up all given the same appointment time of 9am. You could pretty much guarantee that you were at end of list. wait for 3 hours, see the doc who would ask how you were and that was pretty much that
 
Afternoon guys, off to hospital soon for my trial run with the Libre, I hope it goes okay and I understand it !
If I have time after that, I will go and have my blood test for hospital coelaic appointment in May.
Hope you are all enjoying the sunshine ( I will be walking to hospital, so 40 mins and 40 mins back and have already done 10.183 Fitbit steps
 


Good luck with the Libre, RRB. I got mine about 10 months ago and my poor fingers are ever so grateful..

Its like anything new it may seem daunting to start with but after a few days you will be fine.

Typically I will scan at least once per hour. The only downside to scanning so much is that you may find you have too much information. When I was finger testing typically I would mainly test at mealtimes. So for brekkie I would be say BG 6.5 come luchtime say BG of 5.5 and dinner BG of 6.0. Going to bed a BG of 6.5. So those figures for me anyway look good.

What I find using Libre is i can see the big spikes in between meals, sometimes going up from BG of 6.5 to BG of 11.5 a few hours after meals. I was tending to get a bit hung up on the big spikes.

Main thing for me is convenience. Stick on the Libre, download a link to your phone and scan results are there in literally seconds. No more having to carry test strips everywhere, although most times I still do as a back up
 
Gosh, I'd forgotten about the busy clinics. I used to wonder how much training the junior doctors actually got before being free to see us patients. Unfortunately it's due to the diabetes clinic that I developed my great distrust of doctors. It would have been so much better if we'd had DSNs in those days. It was 5 weeks to the day after diagnosis that a junior doctor told me I was cheating in my diet, and then accused me of falsifying my test results. I couldn't believe anyone could say such things as I was doing everything by the book! I went to the library to see if I could figure out what was going on. I decided that I'd most likely gone through the honeymoon period and my blood sugars were rising. That same doctor saw me every single time I went to the clinic, for ages. He cracked a joke once and I deliberately sat there with a straight face. It's ridiculous, but I felt great walking out of the room that day!
 

What profession did you end up in?
 
Hi @smc4761,
The diabetes clinics and the likelihood of the lecture about complications so I better be good always
haunts my memory of those days.
And the doctor who got upset because I was the patient with the worse BSLs that day, ruined his 'batting average'
for well-controlled diabetic patients !! - never mind that I was in the middle of Uni exams that day.
But revenge is sweet (need to find a better saying)!! - I was am to tell him sometime later that I had recently
completed a 7 day whitewater canoe trip - down one of those rivers with gorges, boisterous rapids, the occasional
snake and with civilisation 3 days walk away !!
 
Cumberland said:
Mmmm love scones mmmm

How does everyone pronounce ‘Scone’

Is it scone as in gone

Is it scone as in cone

I’m from the north so for me it’s Scone as in gone lol
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Scone as in cone. But not picky, I like 'em no matter what they're called.....
 
Is a scone a cake or a biscuit?
For a rookie, from a distance a cookie on steroids
But then again, do they soften in the rain
With jam, it can scan as a bodged up Dodger
A bit of a monster when cream intervenes
Uncouth is seems, as it breaks at the seams
It appears like a beanbag for mice which is nice
Have scientists used them experimenting,
tormenting these critters by dunking in tea
comparing to hobnobs or the humble digestive,
Oh where do they fit when destruction is tested?
 
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