With that in mind I thought I’d get a couple of quick whinges out before the weekend.

Whinge 1. When people think it’s funny to pretend they think you get high on insulin.

I had this at work the other day. The guy who said it is a nice guy and very intelligent, but not blessed with wit unfortunately. I was taking my BG as I spoke to him (he’d come over to my desk after all). He took one look and said something like “oooooh, can I have a…

I’m sure she thought she had seen pretty much everything that Dominion road had to show her by now but on Wednesday, in came someone that tried her patience in a totally new way!

My friend runs a recycled fashion boutique and said customer had come in to sell some shoes. Just as this potential customer arrived though, said friend was in the throes of…

I think she must have felt bad (my VERY curt response of “That’s EXACTLY what you want to hear from someone who’s about to take blood from you” may have made her think), because after that she tried to make nice and talk to me about my son and her grandson, etc, but boy oh boy was that a bad way to start! This is almost as bad as the bloodlab…

I’ve just come back from a diabetes check up at my GP’s.

Aaaand breathe.

You see – when I took my son in for his six week vaccinations, they decided to corner me about not having seen the diabetes nurse at the clinic for over a year.

“Ahhhh”, I said. “That would be because I’ve been under the care of the diabetes department at National Women’s for the last 16 months”.

“Well”, they said. “We need you to come in and we’ll go through a checklist of all of your vital tests etc and check that your diabetes is under control”.

Me: “Oh, but you see I’ve been under the strictest care I’ve had in 15…

I just met up with a rep from Animas because I’d enquired about looking at some alternative options for infusion sets. We went to a café down the road from my work (which will remain un-named). We were sitting there with our coffees plus a pile of different infusion…

Someone just asked me if my insulin pump was a pacemaker! I don’t think it beats the time Nic was asked if it was a colostomy bag but it’s up there. I replied with a dignified, “I’m 26 years old, 6′ 2″, 80kg and so no – it is not a pacemaker (even if my H-TRON could do with being pimped out a little).

- Aaron

I hate to moan, but last night I woke up in the night at 2.4, stumbled downstairs, ate some glucose, got up in the morning with a 15.4 (overdid the glucose I’m thinking) then went to the gym and had to keep an eye on my glucose all the way through class after taking a correction, then tried some new things with my pump (in relation to the exercise) all day, and now at 7pm I’ve taken 12 tests and had one recent hypo…

Anyway – I’m checking all the backs of the packs to find sweets that are sort of around 5g carb each, and I hear a lady walk up with her friend and say “Oh, now they’ve got sugar…

I guess this answers it – if it’s a small amount, even if it’s intravenous – it will not kill said non-diabetic. I always assumed it would be close. You’d have to eat a pretty big handful of jelly snakes to get yourself out of that one I’m thinking!

(What has sparked this thought before is when people do that little joke with you –…

I think most of us who’ve been diagnosed for 10+ years still probably avoid sweet/sugary foods out of pure habit or the guilty feeling we get while eating them, while some of our contemporaries have been schooled from the start that as long as they bolus for the carbs in the food they’re eating, they…