Love the root beer float story! How come I'm never next to free ice cream when I go hypo?!?
Okay, Emily, you picked a good one this time. Next time It will probably be Diabetes truth or dare.
1. I was on my way home from the grocery store one Saturday, and as usual, listening to NPR's Car Talk. I suddenly became so tired that I pulled over to the curb, reclined the power seat in my 1988 Pontiac Parisienne and promptly went to sleep. I was awaken by a sharp wrap on the window, only to see a police officer. I promptly drove away. the officer followed along with an ambulance not far behind, and I led them to my driveway,where I parked my car and got out. The officer wanted to talk, but I gave him the brush-off. I received a bill for the ambulance, which I didn't pay.
2. In a former life, I worked as a stage technician/stage manager for a local opera company. I refused to eat anything during a dress rehearsal at a local theater, because if I were to stop and eat, I would miss work opportunity to either perfect my knowledge of the show or to get the show performance ready. Later that day, I was found sleeping on my tool chest.
3. To this day, my mother does not recognize the fact that I have diabetes. This is rather odd, because it runs in her side of the family. Her mother died of reanal failure when mother was six years old. My grandfather lost both of his legs due to diabetes and she, along with four of her sisters are diabetic. From there it filters down and about one third of the extended family are diabetic to some degree. Still, I get banana bread regularly, a chocolate Easter rabbit, cookies and pie and home-made lefse. She still makes a regular diet of this despite my constant reminders that she needs to lower her carb intake. She tells me that my pump was a waste of money and that I don't need that thing. All I have to do is work harder.
4. I was having dinner with a close friend who is also a Type 1 diabetic. This was before my pump. As we decided what we wanted, we ordered, and then tested. We were at the table and we each loaded our syringes (I thought rather discretely) and took our shots. Soon after, security came to the table and asked is all was well, and of course, we said yes. The security officer said that he supposed it was, since he had just witnessed us shooting up drugs. We both laughed, and showed the officer our respective vials of insulin. (She takes Humalog and I use Apidra) We explained that we have to do this each time we eat and several times each day. (At the time, I was taking seven shots each day, and she currently takes about six) It took awhile, but we did convince the security officer that we weren't doing anything illeagal. After he walked away, we were served our meal, and it was on the house.
It is, I don't even like Mountain Dew :)
I vote number one. No way.
Right on! LOL on number two, I don't make a habit of this!!
1. I tried to dial the phone using the TV remote.
2. My friend almost passed out the first time she saw me inject.
3. Seeing me testing, a woman in a restroom said "that's disgusting."
4. Before going out to dinner with friends, they check to be sure it's a restaurant where I can eat without problems.
Boy, they're all possible LOL. I hopefully vote for #3!
Sorry, not #3. It happened.
I hope you did something disgusting, like giving her the finger with your bloody finger LOL
I've actually DONE your #1, and I hope you have such good friends, so I'll guess 2 this time.
I agree with Jean, #1 sounds like a tall tale. Still, Car Talk makes a good background while driving.
I am more cynical, I'm afraid I have to go with #4 being the fib.
Sigh.
Yeah, I love me some Car Talk. ;0)
OMG, #3 is so infuriating. Did you open up a can of whoop-butt? (Doesn't roll of the tongue very easily, but it's PG13!)
Hi all, I know I usually dont comment but this one got my curiousity up, and its a good way to get to know one another.
1.I wanted to be an air traffic controller and got through two interviews with no problem.When I was required to get a physical I came clean about my diabetes.
2.When I was a teen I took green socks off my feet and found my feet were tinged green, I cried for help screaming I had gangrene.
3.I got lost in an amusemnet park during a low and had no glucose, I drank a strangers soda that he left on a chair while he watched me in horror. He called me a pig and told me I had to pay him $3.50.
4.While doing taxes one year I became low and passed out in the preparers office. When I came to, I was surrounded by EMT's and police officers that wanted to know if I was a diabetic. I had been wearing a very noticable medic alert AND had a large container of glucose that had been taken out of my bag by the EMT's.
I don't know, but #2 & #3 are funny!
So which do you think is a fib?
# 2 is the fib I think.
#2 cracked me up because I did that once in real life with a "black" toenail. I was sure it was my melanoma coming back (and yes, that fear is only funny in retrospect) but I finally figured out that my new shoes had indelibly stained part of my big toenail black after the leather got wet in the rain.
It took weeks for that dye to wear off. In the meantime, I had a big black spot on my nail. Yow.
#2 maybe?
I think #1.