Clinic rituals

[Flower]

Do you have any diabetes clinic/post blood test rituals?

I always go for some sort of toast/cake/bun delight in a cafe after having the blood taken for my HbA1c and clinic review blood tests. I worry myself so much over what the results might be even though I try my best but for that half hour after the blood has gone from my arm on its way to the lab and I can do no more I indulge in a carby treat. I do bolus for it so it's not like me going completely off the rails. This morning it was a latte and an almond croissant with a couple of units of Humalog - delicious!🙂

My other ritual which drives me insane is trying to make anagrams out of diabetes, I've done it for years and I make 'beadiest ' on loop in my head. Debates comes a close second yet I still keep trying to make another 8 letter word. Aargh. 40 years of Type 1 and too many hours in diabetes/retinopathy clinics has got to me!

 

[Robin]

I have been known to buy a croissant on the way home from the surgery after bloood tests, but my OH once said, 'what happens if they contact you to say they dropped a vial of blood on the floor and could you go in to have them done again?' which rather dampened my spirits!
Oh, and you’ve got me at it. Die, Beast! is my best so far.

 

[Flower]

Sorry Robin didn't mean to set you off on anagrams, you don't need those on top of Oxford commas! 😉I always try to make 'I debates' not grammatically correct but it doesn't stop me trying !

 

[SB2015]

There is a cafe just near the doctors, and before the tests I miss breakfast, have tests and then have a bacon bap and mug of coffee afterwards. I am now confident enough about the timing that I can even pre-Bolus to reduce the spike that would otherwise appear. VERY ENJOYABLE.

 

[SB2015]

I have been known to buy a croissant on the way home from the surgery after bloood tests, but my OH once said, 'what happens if they contact you to say they dropped a vial of blood on the floor and could you go in to have them done again?' which rather dampened my spirits!
Oh, and you’ve got me at it. Die, Beast! is my best so far.

Just say No, and rearrange. There are limits to our good sense, and sometimes we just have to go off piste.

 

[SB2015]

‘Base diet’
‘Rainy hope’

 

[nonethewiser]

A greasy fry up afterwards, always ready for it after fasting and missing brekkie.

 

[Matt Cycle]

Don't have any rituals really but for anagrams there's 'bidet sea' - because having diabetes is a bit sh*t.

 

[Bronco Billy]

I have been known to buy a croissant on the way home from the surgery after bloood tests, but my OH once said, 'what happens if they contact you to say they dropped a vial of blood on the floor and could you go in to have them done again?' which rather dampened my spirits!
Oh, and you’ve got me at it. Die, Beast! is my best so far.

One croissant won't make any difference to an HbA1c result. A BG test, now that's a different matter.

 

[Contused]

<snip>My other ritual which drives me insane is trying to make anagrams out of diabetes, I've done it for years and I make 'beadiest ' on loop in my head. Debates comes a close second yet I still keep trying to make another 8 letter word<snip>

Using Internet Anagram Server 'beadiest' comes out top, but there's plenty of others.

 

[Madeline]

I think I’m going to make my sausage bap my ritual. Fortunately for my diet I have zero opportunity of going crazy in a bakery, and the hospital cafe is cake free

 

[TheClockworkDodo]

Sadly all I can do is come home and have a bath and put all my clothes in the wash to get the hospital chemical smell off me/them - my first priority whenever I've been to any medical appointments And then watch my blood sugar like a hawk for the rest of the day, because at some point, usually in the evening, I'm going to get the post-chemical-inhalation spike 😡

I like "Die, beast", @Robin

 

[Eddy Edson]

I go wild with a bran+pear muffin from the coffee shop across the road. Such an outlaw!

 

[mikeyB]

You lucky *****r, a coffee shop across the road. Bran and pear sounds yummy, just the thing with an Americano🙂

 

[Eddy Edson]

You lucky *****r, a coffee shop across the road. Bran and pear sounds yummy, just the thing with an Americano🙂

They are pretty yummy, made to a traditional Jain recipe according to the owner tho I suspect he's having a lend.

One thing this place doesn't lack is coffee shops 🙂

 

[Pine Marten]

My GP always insists on a fasting blood test, so I pop into the hospital cafe afterwards and usually have a bacon & egg roll and coffee, which I greatly enjoy...