What insulin do you use? I always thought that I should get an injection 15 minutes before eating, but one day I got an injection and began to wash the dishes, and then the stove instead of eating. When half an hour had passed, I was surprised to notice that I did not have hypoglycemiaWell, best laid plans and all that. I took my insulin at noon, expecting to eat at 12.30 to give the insulin half an hour to work on my BG. I had just put my breakfast on a plate, got a fork out of the drawer and Alistair arrived with the post and started chatting. I didn't want to chase him because he won't be back for a few days, so I chatted and didn't notice the time. He left at 1 pm. By that time my breakfast was coldish and my insulin had been operating for an hour. BG was down to 6.1, which is absolutely fine, but it's still dropping after my meal. I'll have to wait and see how far it goes (5.1 just now) and be ready to take action if it goes too far.
What insulin do you use? I always thought that I should get an injection 15 minutes before eating, but one day I got an injection and began to wash the dishes, and then the stove instead of eating. When half an hour had passed, I was surprised to notice that I did not have hypoglycemia
Blue Care nurse have just to dress the wound in my leg, she had alsom brought along a student nurse from the TAFE College who is doing some outside training with them instead of the base hospital.
He is more aware as a second year student on what to do than a third year student from CQU doing the same thing at the base when I was a inpatient there.
Meredith the BC nurse said she has 150 mls of rain at here place this month and is worrying about crocodiles coming into her back yard.
I mentioned about Drop Bears being worse to the student nurse, he told me had heard about them, but he had his grandfathers kukri under his shirt and will dispatch them in good Gurkha fashion.
Turns out his family left Nepal twenty five years ago and migrated to Australia.
Yeah, it is fascinate me
It seems to me that only intramuscular injections can be done with such a needle
We have definitely moved on! The best item is top right, a Swiss black plastic carrying case which had compartments for two plastic syringes, 2 insulin bottles and alcohol wipes with a water proof pill box in the bottom compartment. They were completely shockproof, but for some reason rarely advertised. The aluminium and blue plastic tubes were filled with methylated spirit to keep the glass syringes sterilised. they were sprung loaded and had a screw top.Yeah, it is fascinate me
Of all that is in this photo, I know only syringes. Frankly, I am surprised by the length of the needle. (I use a needle 6 millimeters long) It seems to me that only intramuscular injections can be done with such a needle
Real horror movie stuff!I took it to this chatty thread in the General chat section of the forum because I didn't want to derail or scare the person who posted the other thread.
I've only used pens as well, but with the old syringes you pinch some skin and inject at an angle to inject subcutaneously.
I've done it wit a guinea pig needing medication, and with a goat too. The goat needed both a intramuscular injection and a subcutaneous one, I was instructed to use the same needle for both.
For the one in the muscle I just rammed it in the goat's neck muscle, for the subcutaneous one I pinched and injected at an angle.
Told the vet injecting the goat myself wouldn't be a problem at all, but that was before I saw the needle!
Still, I managed!
A goat's skin isn't much thicker than a human's, so if you can inject under the skin with this you definitely can with the ones in @Grant_Vicat 's picture!
Australian Australian's are immune to Drop Bears because we have been eating Vegimite, foreign born tourists and Australian are not immune.Maybe you should carry some sort of weapon to defend yourself with against the drop bears; maybe a lightsabre would be useful. Or maybe that medical student could lend you his Dad's kukri.
What about moving your history posts from the other thread to here as well? The thread was started by a newly diagnosed T2 who mentions panic attacks because of their diagnosis. Perhaps not the best place to discuss scary historical treatment of T1?Real horror movie stuff!
I heard that the Vegimite needed to be applied to the armpits, and another method of defence is to wear sharp pins, or forks, pointing upwards in the hair to spike the dropbears if they leap on you?There is a big jar of Vegimite at most tourist traps so you can dab a little bit on behind the ears.
I'm having a hard time applying your advice.I heard that the Vegimite needed to be applied to the armpits, and another method of defence is to wear sharp pins, or forks, pointing upwards in the hair to spike the dropbears if they leap on you?
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