Simone Thompson
Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
I am 16 years old I can't eat chips anymore, I need to count lines 13 per day. What’s a line I ask - well half a slice of bread, or a potato the size of an egg, or two unsweetened biscuits. Yippee flippin' do says I.
Oh and here is an orange to practice doing your injections – and the stainless steel reusable needle, the glass syringe, the surgical spirit to keep it in.
Here are the wee test tablets you put in a test tube to record your high sugar values. Oh and mix your insulin do the cloudy one first then the clear. Don't forget the enter the air into the bottle first.
What strength insulin you on, divide the dose by the strength to get the syringe units.
Now 26 years old, a blood meter size of a shoe box better than wee tests, takes 2 mins to give result. Here are your plastic syringes and disposable needles, are you watching your lines?
Now 36 years old, new insulin no dividing to do all U100 nice and simple.
Now 46 years old, new pen injectors no mixing of insulins one fast acting one slow. I can eat what I like within reason, count my carbs and inject accordingly pretend you are a pancreas and new AccuCheck blood meter size of a mobile phone.
Now 56 years old with AccuCheck Compact Plus, its own jabber, no flippin sticks to dispose of or drop on toilet floor, result within seconds and download onto AccuCheck Compass to show Dr – this Diabetes is a doddle……which goes with my now neuropathic waddle...how time changes everything ..stop now before I break into a song ....
Oh and here is an orange to practice doing your injections – and the stainless steel reusable needle, the glass syringe, the surgical spirit to keep it in.
Here are the wee test tablets you put in a test tube to record your high sugar values. Oh and mix your insulin do the cloudy one first then the clear. Don't forget the enter the air into the bottle first.
What strength insulin you on, divide the dose by the strength to get the syringe units.
Now 26 years old, a blood meter size of a shoe box better than wee tests, takes 2 mins to give result. Here are your plastic syringes and disposable needles, are you watching your lines?
Now 36 years old, new insulin no dividing to do all U100 nice and simple.
Now 46 years old, new pen injectors no mixing of insulins one fast acting one slow. I can eat what I like within reason, count my carbs and inject accordingly pretend you are a pancreas and new AccuCheck blood meter size of a mobile phone.
Now 56 years old with AccuCheck Compact Plus, its own jabber, no flippin sticks to dispose of or drop on toilet floor, result within seconds and download onto AccuCheck Compass to show Dr – this Diabetes is a doddle……which goes with my now neuropathic waddle...how time changes everything ..stop now before I break into a song ....
