Have you ever?

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I did something kind of silly today - without even thinking about it - I just did it almost instinctively. So it gave me an idea that it would be fun to share and hear about diabetic misadventures people have had, or things they’ve done that non-diabetics would never even think about. And see if anyone else has done the same!

I’d like to hear what crazy things people have done just because they are a diabetic. I’ll start:

Have you ever busted your chin (or anything) open and thought, “No sense in letting this blood go to waste. Let me test my BG with it before I stop the bleeding.”

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Before I got my CGM, I did this a few times when I cut my finger. :slight_smile:

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Most people run away when bears show up in their campsite. I chased on that I thought had my insulin. My backpacking mates thought I had lost my mind as I ran yelling come back here you B#$%&@#d I need my insulin.

Yeah, he didn’t steal it. He just got the food and left the insulin.

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While planning a trip in a very hot and humid, less developed country, we sent tens of emails to different accommodations asking the age and brand of fridge they had, and whether there was a freezer on location (for the ice packs in the insulin cooler).

I possibly went a bit overboard:-)

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That is a perfectly logical action! :grinning:

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I’d be running after that damned bear, too, if I thought it had stolen my daughter’s insulin. As long as it was a black bear. A brown bear, not so much. A polar bear? Never! (I wouldn’t be around to continue fighting my daughter’s BCBS for more insulin every month.)

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Yup, have done the “oh look i’m bleeding, get a strip”…:smile:

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Have you ever stood looking at a half eaten pie and said. Heck there’s no reason why I should waste a perfectly good low.

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Ha!:joy: Oh heck yeah, man! I even plan my lows around pie sometimes!

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We live in a fairly rural part of the Midwest, very conservative. Today I drove my 12-year-old T1D son to school at lunch time. He had spent the night fighting rolling BG levels so I let him sleep in.

Walking in, I noticed he was speaking a bit fast and a little more enthusiastically than usual. Right as we were passing the entrance doors, with a bunch of parents around, not thinking, I asked him, fairly loudly in the conversational noise: “Are you high?”

Everyone quieted down suddenly, and we walked to the sign-in register in total silence.

Now my son is mad at me:-)

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Ha! That’s hilarious! My dad said the same thing to me one time when we were in church, and my sister started laughing so hard!

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I was visiting someone in the hospital yesterday and I needed a little sugar boost. I had no coins or bills for the vending machine, but over by the coffee maker they had some hot chocolate packets. So I poured a couple of them in a cup and ate dry hot chocolate mix with a spoon. :yum:

I can’t be the only one to have done this!

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I take sugar sachets from coffee shops and restaurants (and keep them in my emergency kit) for possible lows.

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