Parents of Animas Ping pumpers? Ever wonder just HOW MANY used test strips your kid could fit in that little "drop box" between the me
ter and cannister? I've often wondered, and tonight, armed with a pair of tweasers and keen curiosity, I found out. My little pumper secreted away 23. What about you? It's the little things like this that give a little humor to all of this. It's like he's trying to stuff them all in as if to say, "Go stuff it, diabetes!" Makes me giggle.
And then there's all the blood he smears on it after he checks! Come on, what about an alcohol swab! Geez. Spray that thing down with luminol and look at it under one of those CSI black lights, and it would probably resemble a horrific crime scene!
I hear you.
My son uses the alchohol wipes and the test strips. I find the used strips and the wipes (smeared with blood) everywhere...kitchen counter, dining room table, floor, just to name a few places. That is everywhere but in the trash.
I just smile and clean it up and sometimes chuckle about it. The trash can is so close to where he discards everything. Maybe I should get his eyes checked.
I find dried up alcohol swabs, wrappers and test strips in the bed where we check him at night and sometimes in the sheets when they come out of the dryer. I saw a joke somewhere about test strips being stuck on the family dog.
I swear if i were ever accused of a crime and my house sprayed with luminol it would light up like the 4th of July! I wish my kids used an alcohol wipe (tissue, rag...) instead my girls wipe the blood on their meter case, and then wherever else is handy! I think i should also start a new trend. the test strip flooring finish. that way i wouldn't notice the million test strips littering my house and kids rooms!
I caught my 12 year old boy wiping a bloody finger on his HAIR!!! And I would only dream of him using alcohol swabs. My tip for the day, though, is I put an attractive stainless steel bowl with a lid on the dining room table. Lift the lid- it is all used test strips, syringe tip covers and misc diabetes flotsam. I see that he even brought another bowl like it to his room for the same purpose. My Crate and Barrel impulse buy 5 years ago has served us well when life moved in a direction I never would have expected.
The blood in the hair made me crack up!
Then there's the back of the minivan!
The test strips everywhere is like the breadcrumbs in Hansel and Grettel. I find them on the soccer field. In the dugout. Under the bed. Behind the garbage can. It's really hysterical.
Thanks everyone for your replies. There is humor to be found in all of this, despite how serious it is. My wife and I find some relief in sharing our funny little reflections with each other. I wish that for everyone.