You have TWO glucose meters: One for your usual testing, results and averages and another identical one (unusally hidden away in a secret drawer) which you use to test when you're pretty sure the result will be "too bad" to show your parents or endocrinologist, and also don't want to ruin you're pump average. Of course, you know that you can't do anything about your A1c, so if you have a lot of these you postpone your endocrinologist appointment for another month and try again :) LOL
I'm guessing that Courtenay had eaten a snack in advance of gym class so that she wouldn't go low. Then when it was cancelled she didn't have the exercise to counter the snack, so she would go high.
You have TWO glucose meters: One for your usual testing, results and averages and another identical one (unusally hidden away in a secret drawer) which you use to test when you're pretty sure the result will be "too bad" to show your parents or endocrinologist, and also don't want to ruin you're pump average. Of course, you know that you can't do anything about your A1c, so if you have a lot of these you postpone your endocrinologist appointment for another month and try again :) LOL
1. You get pulled over by a police officer and have to explain the syringes on the floor of your car. 2. All your relatives and friends ask you to test their blood sugars. 3. By the time you finish weighing and counting you're not hungry anymore. 4. You know the difference between "diabetic" and "dietetic." 5. You tell your friends you're lucky because diabetes has taught you to eat healthier. 6. You purposely overdose on insulin so you have an excuse for eating that hot fudge sundae. 7. You can blame the extra 10 or 20 pounds on your diabetes. 8. You watch all the Mary Tyler Moore reruns. 9. You actually like the Jonas Brothers and think Nick Jonas is God. 10. You know that the "Islets of Langerhans" are not in the Caribbean or Bahamas. 11. You try cramming for your next A1c by laying off your favorite foods and testing 20 times a day for a week. 12. You know how to to successfully fake all the symptoms of hypoglycemia when you want to get out of something you don't want to do or have someone feel real sorry for you.
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too funny, paul! i totally tried #12 my freshman year of college and it BACKFIRED and my professor called the school nurse (i went to a small private college... yes, we has a school nurse) who then called me. my roommate and i decided diabetes was NOT a good excuse to skip class :o)
OK... here's one more and I wouldn't have written this if I personally hadn't done it many times:
You know you're a WORLD-CLASS SUPER TYPE 1 CHAMPION when...
You can do all of the following in this order:
1. Locate your test kit 2. Unzip the case 3. Remove a strip from the bottle 4. Insert it correctly in the meter 5. Prick your finger 6. Get the blood on the test strip 7. Read your result 8. Locate a syringe and the correct bottle of insulin 9. Draw out the correct dose 10. Inject yourself (through your clothes, ok) 11. Put everything away so you can find it the next time
ALL WHILE DRIVING A MANUAL TRANSMISSION (5-SPEED) AUTO AT A MINIMUM SPEED OF 55 MPH ON THE EXPRESSWAY AT NIGHT!
My sophmore year of college - I pulled a low-blood-sugar to get out of a class (it was not the first time - I removed myself from countless high school gym classes - I figured hey, I have this horrible thing, I am going to take advantage of it). I went to the dining room - got a little snack - and went back to class. My problem - my professor was a type-1 diabetic (she was a LOVELY lady and she died in the late 1990's of diabetes complications). Needless to say, I never pulled that again - infact she became my college advisor.
OK... here's one more and I wouldn't have written this if I personally hadn't done it many times:
You know you're a WORLD-CLASS SUPER TYPE 1 CHAMPION when...
You can do all of the following in this order:
1. Locate your test kit 2. Unzip the case 3. Remove a strip from the bottle 4. Insert it correctly in the meter 5. your finger 6. Get the blood on the test strip 7. Read your result 8. Locate a syringe and the correct bottle of insulin 9. Draw out the correct dose 10. Inject yourself (through your clothes, ok) 11. Put everything away so you can find it the next time
ALL WHILE DRIVING A MANUAL TRANSMISSION (5-SPEED) AUTO AT A MINIMUM SPEED OF 55 MPH ON THE EXPRESSWAY AT NIGHT!
First like this: Stick your finger (That is ST__k) Then like this: Prick your finger (That is PR__k)
Just what I thought. How can the group software censor out the word PRIK (phonetic spelling) on a Type 1 Diabetic social community? We all use that word, don't we?
First like this: Stick your finger (That is ST__k) Then like this: your finger (That is PR__k)
Just what I thought. How can the group software censor out the word PRIK (phonetic spelling) on a Type 1 Diabetic social community? We all use that word, don't we?
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I have wondered the same thing countless times. I've tried to figure out if maybe they decided to "censor" that word just to be funny...or if they were serious. I've seen plenty of other words spoken (er...written) on this site that are way worse than "the p word," and they aren't censored at all. Hmm...
...you freak out when you find out gym class in the rain was canceled.(this has happened to me)
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Okay, I may just be really slow...but I don't get this...
Care to explain? (=
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if gym is outside(and its raining) and it gets canceled for whatever reason(a performance?) you freak out because in the morning some people have to adjust their insulin for excercise. all of a sudden, that excerccise is gone so your blood sugar is crazy.
When you subconsciously carb count everyone elses lunch in the lunchroom at work...
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I've had tons of times where I'm mumbling under my breath and someone asks me what I'm doing, and all I can say is "you're eating 112 grams of carbohydrate!" Then they tell me i'm crazy...
you can consume large amounts of carbohydrates in a short amount of time when your low
i love the "You get incredibly tired of having to explain to people 'no I don't have the same thing as you're 800 pound grandma...' (especially if you're type 1)" one. i get this one a lot.