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Eye screening/ pump/no glucose

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Monica

Monica

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Sorry for the odd title.
Carol had her eye screening last wednesday and that was only because I phoned the screening people for an appointment. She should have had one in March😱 I sincerely hope that her background retinopathy has disappeared now.

Carol also received pump no.3 on Wednesday, because the other one alarmed 3 times since 1. April while rewinding. The first time Carol went into a right panic, thinking we couldn't sort it and she would die😱. But after we'd taken the battery out and put it back in, the pump rewound easily. As it happend 3 times, I decided I'd better ring Animas to see what we could do.

Yesterday, Carol went out after dinner. After about 30 minutes she phoned me to say she was 2.1 and didn't have any glucose on her😱. Nor did she or her friend have any money on them. OH quickly drove me to them. I grabbed the 50 pot of glucose (which I gave her friend to carry, as C didn't have a bag with her), some glucose gel stuff and also the glucagon. Carol shouted at me that she didn't need the glucagon!!! Well, I didn't know did I?????
I hope she's learnt her lesson, because this isn't the first time she went out without glucose, but I'm not allowed to "remind" (read "nag") her.
 
Hope Carol gets good news from the eye screening 🙂 I think that the fact that pumps are such technically advanced items is probably one of the reasons I have at the back of my mind that I'd rather not have one at the moment - hope the new one behaves! And I can relate to the occasions when you don't have glucose with you - I once went to the local shops and was hit with a bad hypo on my way back - all I had on me was a couple of really old, gnarly dextrose tablets which were horrible. It made sure I always carried something more palatable from that point onwards! 🙂
 
Hear Hear. Being a nasty wicked step-mother I'm afraid she has just given you CAUSE to 'nag' every single time she goes near the front door.

DO it Monica. Just DO it. If you aren't in, give OH full permission to do the same. She now needs to prove to you beyond shadow of a doubt that she will look after herself properly. Then the occasional lapse can be forgiven! - but not until ! LOL
 
trophywench said:
Hear Hear. Being a nasty wicked step-mother I'm afraid she has just given you CAUSE to 'nag' every single time she goes near the front door.

DO it Monica. Just DO it. If you aren't in, give OH full permission to do the same. She now needs to prove to you beyond shadow of a doubt that she will look after herself properly. Then the occasional lapse can be forgiven! - but not until ! LOL
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Oh yes, I'm asking her every time now. Last night I got the reply😱h I'm only going to Helen's!!!(who lives round the corner). I told her that I didn't care and take it anyway.
 
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