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Type 1'stars R Us

I’m hovering around 16-20
I have slept for an hour
Ketone meter 0.3
A lot better than yesterday and early morn today
 
smc4761 said:
Sad I know, but I have always wanted to go to National Museum of Scotland. There is an exhibition on there, Rip it Up, the story of Scottish music. There was also a BBC documentary of same name on about a month ago which inspired me to get off my butt and go and see.

Am I too late get my inoculations to get into Ednburgh:nailbiting::nailbiting::nailbiting::nailbiting::nailbiting::nailbiting:
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That's a very good reason, it's not the museum's fault it's in Edinburgh, and there is no other way of visiting it. You can have a walk around the old town as well. Apparently Edinburgh is, these days, a "hipster hotspot", there are no innoculations that can save you from that. Mind you, Glasgow has it's hipster bits, too, apparently, so you should have built up some immunity, by now.
 
Mel dCP said:
Winner because you’re taking exactly the right approach and a hug because it sucks. Even if we appear to be gliding along, nobody knows just how frantically we’re paddling under the surface to keep it up. Unless we tell them. I’m now making a real point of letting friends and family see just how much I have to do to keep myself afloat. It’s been quite a revelation to many...
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Starting the year as I mean to go on....!

 
Cumberland said:
I have phoned PALS and await a phone call back from A&E Matron

I don’t like complaining as I know first hand that it’s tough working for the NHS
But when your ill with hyperglycaemia and are throwing up it really really disturbed me that at A&E that their priority was to see drunks, drug addicts etc who came in after me and received treatment before me because they were being obnoxious and unruly (the police fetched one guy in who was in handcuffs) came in after I had waited and waited for 4 hours and was seen immediately before their arses even touched a seat really really hissed me right off

I was there 8 hours not even triaged not one blood glucose test Zilch help

So I left very unhappy still feeling rubbish no sleep
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That’s appalling Cumbs, you were truly at risk! How dare they ignore your need - hope you’re not feeling horrible after effects of the hyper I wish they could all experience even a small rise in bs to know what you were going through: maybe you could volunteer to give the whole A&E dept some proper education about T1.
 
I have to add that not all paramedics are uncaring. I had a night hypo (Lantus, pre Dafne) twelve years ago and came back to consciousness with two lovely paramedics sitting on my bed and doing their utmost to reassure everyone that all would be ok now that they’d given me an intravenous glucose injection and had tested my bs and seen it was back to ‘normal’. They stayed to ensure that I didn’t slip back to hypo and were totally caring. I wish all in the NHS could be like them.
 
Morning all, have a good day, especially you, @Cumberland!
A good level (for Kitedoc, see, I do sometimes listen) night in the 6s, but one of my knackety knees started kicking off a few days ago and is causing serious trouble now. Dratted thing. Off to the doc later to seek the long route to an analysis/diagnosis of this most recent pain and movement prob and, I hope, a fix. I was told when I had all the cartilage removed from both back in the early 80s that there’d be trouble ahead, but why now, just when I’m planning to go to see my lovely friends in Greece. Sigh.
 
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