A little trip down memory lane
Back in the day when testing how much glucose was in your system it was literally bucket chemistry:
5 drop of urine with 10 drops of water add in tablet of magic and wait for it to turn a colour. Accuracy oooooo you'd be lucky at 4 hours but more like 6 that was most of the 70's and into the 80's.
Then things improved where you had to weeeee onto a stick
Great unless you were drunk or hypo or really didn't want to go.
Something similar came along later which used blood, least that was a bit quicker but still find the colour on the side of the tube, try doing that late at night
Then the early blood test meters started to turn up sort of late 90's an yes they had finger prickers something like this
These were great, certainly got blood out your finger plus it is the only thing I know of, other than a long bow, to go through and inch of oak
. Only used it twice and then used to ram the pricker needle in by hand which was easier and as for a needle,
more like a nail nothing compared to the these days.
So image dealing with the above to monitor your sugars and hold your sh** together, no" ooooooo ive gone up 00.5of a mmol after eating two bits of rice should I call emergency"
get back in the bin
It might explain my sometimes
attitude towards T1 and why bouncing around between 4-10 don't bother me to much.
Then again in 20 years time we will all be sitting here going "Remember that Libre", "oh yes, how primitive"