I have no issues with blood. No issues testing my BG (except that I’d rather not). I do, however, have a mysterious phenomenon that occurs regularly…
I test, then put the used strip in one of many available containers (empty strip containers, strategically placed). It’s a long-term habit to put them in the containers. So the question is, how do they escape???
Where’s the weirdest place you’ve found a test strip? My list includes pockets, dog beds & kennels, seats in the car, bottoms of damp bottles… I could go on. Are they related to those socks that disappear from the laundry??
Probably because they are tiny and slightly damp and stick to things!
I have found them in the bottom of my handbag, in my mother’s bed - and I do not sleep there! Can only imagine that they got stuck to my clothes, and I had to change her sheets and found their way in that way. I have found them in the washing up machine in church, stuck to the toilet seat in church (very embarrassing!). Someone once came to me while I was preparing a wedding meal and said that they knew which cubicle I had been using. Unfortunately it was my time of the month and I was mortified. I feigned innocence and asked how they knew. They replied that she had found a testing strip and melon seeds stuck to the toilet seat! Woops!
I have found them in the cutlery drawer at home - though I do not test in the kitchen - again in the toilet, in my jeans pockets - again not too clever when you are emptying your pockets looking for change in a shop!
I guess they are related to the socks. Solution to the sock problem is to always have the same coloured socks so that if you lose one you can match it up easily to another in your odd sock bag! A friend of mine once suggested that we hold a sock fest at church. Everyone brings in their odd socks (if they can find them) and see if they can match them up and agree who keeps what. We then would ask the Pastor to bless the marriage of the socks and wish them a long and happy marriage (though it is likely that there would soon be a queue at the divorce courts for socks on the grounds of desertion!
Another suggestion she had was to festoon a winter tree outside her kitchen window with all her brightly coloured odd socks to make the tree look more cheerful during the winter!
Low the WoW picture i used to have a heap around my gaming puter - tend to mainly find them in pags, random places on the floor, in the car and in the washing machine. It is not helped by my 1yo cats sometimes stealing them from the rubbish bin the play with.
We were having problems with our dishwasher. The repairman was taking it apart…deep in it’s belly were about half a dozen dead test strips. We had only had the dishwasher for about two years. HOW DO THEY DO THAT?
I remember telling a very good friend about the strips in the dishwasher and her first reaction was one of disgust (as in…something with blood getting mixed in with items you eat from). She is very accepting and non-judgemental. But her initial reaction made me wonder if I am just numb to any thought that dead test strips may gross many people out.
I don’t think they are related to the socks…but they must have the same mutant gene.
Hmmm, I didn’t know that test strips were ever alive. I have found mine in the strangest places, the cat’s water dish floating like life rafts in the middle of a small pond, on the floor, between my cat’s teeth (he thinks they are to be carried about like some trophy), on the floor of the car, in the bottom of my purse, stuck to my clothes, you name it. Come to think of it, I really am beginning to think those things have 9 lives like a cat. LOL
i used to have a heap around my gaming puter - tend to mainly find them in pags, random places on the floor, in the car and in the washing machine. It is not helped by my 1yo cats sometimes stealing them from the rubbish bin the play with.