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triple epic hypo fail

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at work, feeling a bit low, go to raid fridge, no luck, look in drinks cupboard, all diet, can't raid car as mine is broken and am using OH's who cannot leave sweets uneaten, decide on sweet tea (milk intollerant so will have to be black) drop tea bag in tea and burn hand. then decide i should prob test, have come out without my handbag = no tester. so sweet black tea and dry honey nut clusters yum yum ugh sigh :(
 
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Hi ellie.

I've tried to correct the title but failed dismally.🙄

If you're still at work, can you ring someone to get them to bring you something more substantial, in case you hypo again ?

If not, it's a good lesson ! 😉

Rob
 
i rang my OH who informed me he has hypostop or glucose tabs in the first aid kit in his boot! yay, i will be hunting out an old meter/aquiring a new one to leave in his car. what sort of woman goes out without her handbag?!
 
Sorry to hear about the hypo elliebug :( I normally carry some jelly babies around with me everywhere but there was one occasion when I was out and didn't have them and sure enough had a bad hypo! I had to dig around in my bag and found some old, rock hard dextrose tablets covered in muck and fluff! Ugh! 😱
 
Only use a handbag when essential ie weddings and an investiture at Buckingham Palace - about once every 2 years. Apart from that, pockets in clothing and rucksacks are my method to prevent separation from my jelly babies and blood glucose test meter. 🙂
 
elliebug said:
what sort of woman goes out without her handbag?!
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Me, I stuff everything into pockets then pretend I can't find my purse and someone else pays.

I recently decided I was going to sort out my bag as I can't find stuff in it. I found a small bag (has about 6) bag of jelly babies. If the bag was open they'd have been covered on fluff, but the bag was closed and the jelly babies were well squished.

I hope you are feling better
 
OH gets annoyed with me because when we go out I don't like carrying a bag so he has to have the injection pen etc stuffed into his pockets and Lucozade in the side of the car!!!! But when I go to work it's a big bag full of medications and lucozade.....the only pain is that for some of my drugs, e.g. eye drops I only have one supply so when I use them in the morning I have to remember to put them in my bag to use at work!!! As for packing all of the stuff for a weekend at mum's - 9 lots of medication plus Lucozade becomes a mammoth packing task and a mad panic that I may have forgotten something..........
 
elliebug said:
at work, feeling a bit low, go to raid fridge, no luck, look in drinks cupboard, all diet, can't raid car as mine is broken and am using OH's who cannot leave sweets uneaten, decide on sweet tea (milk intollerant so will have to be black) drop tea bag in tea and burn hand. then decide i should prob test, have come out without my handbag = no tester. so sweet black tea and dry honey nut clusters yum yum ugh sigh :(
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This must have been awful for you. Lots of sympathy because I've been in the same situation before.......luckily OH works in the same building as me so when my BG was falling low and I had a class to teach I was able to phone him so that he could go to the restaurant and quickly bring me a bottle of Lucozade. The students never noticed anything was wrong but now I keep my BGs higher at work so that I don't risk this happening again. Low BGs and a class to teach don't mix!
 
Oh Dear! I have been in the situation recently too. Had lots of hypos, 3 in one morning and had eaten all my glucose tabs. Had another hypo just before lunch, 2.4 with no sugar to treat it! I checked the cafe but it was closed, vending machines only had diet lucozade!! I have a big office so thought someone would have some coke, but no, only diet! Eventually someone saved me with a couple of his own glucose tablets which kept me going until my boyfriend arrived with lucozade. Now I always take loads of food out with me
 
I use a backpack most of the time because the walking stick means I don't have any spare hands for handbags. It has my D-kit, including injector pen, pills, test kit, wet wipes, hand gel, spare needles and lancets, some glucogel (yuck!) and a little packet of jelly babies. There's also a mini first-aid kit, a small sewing kit and I have a small can of full-fat Irn-Bru in there, because I can't stand Lucozade. I decided after Freaky Friday a few weeks back that I needed to get my act together to try and avoid that sort of fun in future. Strange thing though, I haven't had a real hypo since I got the kit together. Perhaps the Diabetes Fairy has decided I'm no fun any more.
 
both cars are now fully stocked with yummy things!!! glad i'm not the only one to have a hypo fail! 🙂
 
Hope youre feeling better , i always keep bottlesof lucozade in cupboard at work for emergencies and then replace if i use , all the other staff know where it is too 😉
 
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