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Hi all, how we all doing? I have finally go around to posting in a diabetic forum!!! I have decided to say hello and maybe just may e pass on some advice on diabetes management and to help people's mind set over this condition. What gives me the right to make such a bold statement..... Hmmm well been Diabetic since 1970 way back when all we had was a tiny test tube chemical kit to test our blood sugar with. Five drops of pee, ten drops of water. Blue good but could be hypo, orangey would be dodgy and blue to black oh o feel like poo and to be sure a little sick. Of course there was no pens, pumps or even plastic syringes just good old fashioned glass syringe with big big needle that had to be steam cleaned every day. Fast forward forty plus years I still be breathing, smiling, walking and typing. No complications and I have done the lot through sweets to smoking, drink to drunk, insulin to LSD and still get up out of my bed.... Hello from me who some may call mouthy Jay whilst others just simply call me laid back Saggs
 
Hi Saggs, welcome to the forum 🙂 We've got quite a few old timers here 😉 I think some of them had to get their pig pancreases from the butchers and boil them up themselves, glad I was only diagnosed 5 years ago! 😱

Good to hear that you've managed to avoid the horrors! What insulin regime are you on now?
 
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Hi all, how we all doing? I have finally go around to posting in a diabetic forum!!! I have decided to say hello and maybe just may e pass on some advice on diabetes management and to help people's mind set over this condition. What gives me the right to make such a bold statement..... Hmmm well been Diabetic since 1970 way back when all we had was a tiny test tube chemical kit to test our blood sugar with. Five drops of pee, ten drops of water. Blue good but could be hypo, orangey would be dodgy and blue to black oh o feel like poo and to be sure a little sick. Of course there was no pens, pumps or even plastic syringes just good old fashioned glass syringe with big big needle that had to be steam cleaned every day. Fast forward forty plus years I still be breathing, smiling, walking and typing. No complications and I have done the lot through sweets to smoking, drink to drunk, insulin to LSD and still get up out of my bed.... Hello from me who some may call mouthy Jay whilst others just simply call me laid back Saggs
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Hi Saggs and welcome to the forum. Just for your info insulin pumps were about in the 1970's 🙂 Glass syringes were kept in industrial spirit so def did not need boiling or steam cleaned as you put it either 🙄 There were also no needles in those days either NHS prescription was for harpoons 😛
I've been diagnosed almost 49 years and have no complications either 😎
 
Welcome to the forum Saggs 🙂
 
Welcome to the forum, a nice place to be in as full of support and help. 🙂
 
Lol at the harpoon's as I remember them. To be honest the memory of my mum boiling the syringe is a bit hap hazard so the meths sounds best.... Wonder if i supped from that bottle... The pumps if I remember correctly were about 1976? Big clunky thing much akin to the first mobile phones that came out? The insulin I am on now is Humalog and Glargine. plus of course numerous other meds for this that and the other...
 
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Lol at the harpoon's as I remember them. To be honest the memory of my mum boiling the syringe is a bit hap hazard so the meths sounds best.... Wonder if i supped from that bottle... The pumps if I remember correctly were about 1976? Big clunky thing much akin to the first mobile phones that came out? The insulin I am on now is Humalog and Glargine. plus of course numerous other meds for this that and the other...
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Hi again Saggs, I still use bovine insulin but in a pump now. Life is good 🙂

It was industrial spirit for the syringes and needles Methylated spirit was mauve in colour and took the makings off the syringes hence the clear industrial spirit. It stank so if you drank that stuff I would diagnose you with no sense and taste :D😱
 
Way back in the dark ages, I used to have a pal who was T1 and watched him sometimes getting ready to inject. I couldn't imagine having to do that several times a day. 40 years later and guess what I do several times a day? I'm not scared of needles, but those huge things would have given me pause, I'm so glad for my nice LITTLE needles. He thinks it's hilarious.
 
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How I imagine life must have been like for you and Sue when you were little...

http://diabetespoetry.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/diabetic-days-of-yore.html

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Lol it wasn't quite like that.
I actually had a normal happy childhood. The only difference being carbs had to be counted and 2 injections a day. I wasn't treated any differently than my 2 brothers in any other way.

I did learn at an early age the art of adding water to the clinitest tablets so the sample came out the right colour 😱 Funny thing was I didn't know mum knew what I was doing for many years 😱
 
ROFL at Saggs and Sue !

On the Carb Counting course I was on, some old timers and some newer ones, all of 'us' admitted we'd forged Blood Sugar diaries before going to the hospital ! And the Consultant told us his Professor at med school told his class that if a BG diary wasn't tainted with odd drops of blood here and there - then to treat the whole thing as complete fiction!

After he'd gone, one DSN admitted that many years previously, her T1 husband had persuaded here to do a pee sample for him to take to his hospital apt, because he knew his would be rubbish. She said it was the ONLY time but I wonder? LOL It was one of the things apparently, that made her jump at the chance to train as a DSN - and a very good one she is indeed, cos she actually KNOWS what D is like in the Real World.

Anyway, just wanted to say Hi and point out to these young uns that they hadn't invented home BG testing monitors at that stage and so we were actually testing our Urine glucose - and it didn't even tip over into your pee till it got to 11 in your blood (assuming you had a normal Renal Threshold)

Since mine was normally violently orange, I didn't test it much ....... then ...... as I saw it, not much point really as you didn't seem to be able to do anything to actually correct it !

TG that's water under the bridge.
 
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