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My experience in a French hospital

PhoebeC said:
We went camping at the weekend only 2 nights and 2 days but I always take spares of the spares. Always take enough testing stripes for all the days. And even my pens. I had 2 libres fault on holiday in Devon once and got down to the last one, that was enough for me to always make sure I have plenty of supplies.
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Good that you think like that. As it happened I had 2 BG meters with me (OK one had a flat battery but I never needed it), with 2 lancing devices and 100 strips as well as 3 x Libre 3+ and 10 ketone strips. One Libre 3+ I applied on day 2 of the holiday and it failed right away, the second lasted 2 full weeks, the 3rd fell off.
helli said:
I always take enough spare tests strips to last the full trip even though I also have a CGM and a spare.
However, I didn't take a spare meter until ...
On a hike through the Beacons, I experienced "Welsh weather" and my meter became waterlogged. I tried 4 or 5 local village pharmacies but none had any meters for sale.
I now take a spare meter with me as well as the spare CGMs. But it will probably never happen again.
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Eeeek.... you couldn't make it up could you?
 
Well remember stopping for lunch on the banks of a river somewhere in France on the way back to the northern coast to come home from a fortnight's fishing so 3 generations - Grandparents (Me and Husband) Parents (Our eldest daughter and her husband) and their two youngest children, our son-in-laws younger brother, his little son and his girlfriend. We noticed Coypu swimming along the far bank and realised some were babies. Not good from a riverbank POV, generally.

There were some French Moho's parked further along the bank so I asked a chap sitting outside the first one, what the critturs are called in France. He replied that they were Ragodon and made excellent pate. (with much rubbing off his belly to reiterate how excellent he thought it was, however accompanied with great deal of laughter - hence we thought en famille we'd better pass on trying that, thanks!
 
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