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Long timers

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Hello Beverley, this should be an interesting thread. 🙂
 
beverley dean said:
Hi I'm Beverley and I've had type one for fifty eight years. I'd enjoy hearing from other long timers.
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Hi Beverley, welcome to the forum 🙂 We've got got quite a few long timers here! I've only got 9 years, so a relative novice 😉
 
Welcome to the forum, Beverley. Just starting year 5, so something of a late bloomer here!
 
Welcome to the forum, Beverley Dean, from a 21 years T1D novice.
 
Hi Bev,
fantastic to hear from you and welcome to the forum.

There's quite a few of us long termers on the forum 🙂
 
Hi Bev and welcome to the forum. 🙂 I am but a youngster compared to you. :D
 
Welcome Bev again. The other post has gone ? o_O WELL WELL done for your 58yrs. I was talking to a bloke a couple of week ago who was very close to getting his badge for 60yrs. You will know all about Glass syringes & "Panel Pin" needles. The good old days 😉
 
Nowhere near as long time as you at a mere 26 years.
 
HOBIE said:
Why not stick with the 1 Bev posted ? o_O
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Bev started two threads, Hobie, (quite properly) one to introduce herself on the Newbie's section, and one to ask a specific question on the General Message Board, only as often happens, the replies have crossover content. If you want to refer to a specific answer, you'll have to check them both out.
 
Robin said:
Bev started two threads, Hobie, (quite properly) one to introduce herself on the Newbie's section, and one to ask a specific question on the General Message Board, only as often happens, the replies have crossover content. If you want to refer to a specific answer, you'll have to check them both out.
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Thank you Robin 😎
 
Robin said:
Bev started two threads, Hobie, (quite properly) one to introduce herself on the Newbie's section, and one to ask a specific question on the General Message Board, only as often happens, the replies have crossover content. If you want to refer to a specific answer, you'll have to check them both out.
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Thanks for explaining that, Robin, I was very confused for a minute there by Hobie's question!
 
Hi Bev. Type 1 since 1985, I remember the old glass syringe with the massive needles we used, used to get 1 litre bottles of surgical spirit for my syringe to sit in to keep it clean. 😉
 
Hi everyone, thanks for the warm welcome. Yes I remember the old glass syringes, my Mum bought me a little saucepan only to be used by me, to boil up my syringe each morning. It added some time to my usual routine getting ready for school and yes I remember the needles they were about an inch long and as thick as a sturdy sewing needle! But on the whole I just got on with life.
 
beverley dean said:
Hi everyone, thanks for the warm welcome. Yes I remember the old glass syringes, my Mum bought me a little saucepan only to be used by me, to boil up my syringe each morning. It added some time to my usual routine getting ready for school and yes I remember the needles they were about an inch long and as thick as a sturdy sewing needle! But on the whole I just got on with life.
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Hehe! I wrote this poem a few years ago about the 'good old days' 🙂

I won’t forget those wise old words my Daddy said to me
As he sat down in his chair one night and perched me on his knee.
He said, ‘Son, diabetes wasn’t always so much fun,
So let me tell you how it was in 1931!’

Twice a day we’d drive to town, down to the abattoir,
Pick out a bovine pancreas and stow it in the car,
And when we got home Mum and Dad would mash that organ up,
And strain it through a muslin bag into a paper cup…

Then Dad would get some chemicals and boil them in a pan,
Adding bits of this and that with flourish and élan!
And meanwhile I would drink and drink until I had to pee,
And Mum would take a jar away, as swiftly as could be!

She’d add it to the chemicals, and if it turned bright red
Then I would have no supper and be sent off straight to bed.
But if it just turned yellowish, I’d have something to eat
Like carrots mashed in gravy, with sweet pickles for a treat!

I didn’t like the needles though, at least six inches long!
So Mum would jig around the room, distracting me with song!
And when he’d scraped the rust off, Dad would stick it in my butt,
I’d bite down on a leather strap to keep my mouth tight shut!

So, should you whinge and moan about how finger pricking’s bad,
Then pause to contemplate about the progress we have had.
We’ve gone from times when prospects for our future might seem poor,
To looking forward to the day that they announce the cure!

😉
 
beverley dean said:
Hi everyone, thanks for the warm welcome. Yes I remember the old glass syringes, my Mum bought me a little saucepan only to be used by me, to boil up my syringe each morning. It added some time to my usual routine getting ready for school and yes I remember the needles they were about an inch long and as thick as a sturdy sewing needle! But on the whole I just got on with life.
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The good old days ?. Thank goodness Tech is getting better Bev ! My dad bless him was a VERY strong fella & my mother could no longer get the needles to go in my arm. Needles bending & TWICE the glass syringe has exploded cos insulin would not go in to my skin. Try & get a kid to have it done again ? Thank goodness they did :D:D
 
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