You reach for a pen, out of your pocket, and you pull out part of a testing kit, insulin or glucose tablet packs instead.

~Danielle

I BUMPED this thread for RCo and anyone else who needs a chuckle.

~Danielle

Thanks Danielle


Do you know you're diabetic when you are at a vegetarian wedding, and you pick your way through the main meal, as though barely hungry, tip most of the dessert onto the Best Man's plate, look utterly disinterested, even though you are now getting really hungry, when they are dishing out slices of superb looking iced cake....and then scream "OH YEAH YES" when they finally produce a table full of celery sticks and cheese?

Or is it when you are choosing a new nail polish, and almost buy a pink one for the first time in your life...because it goes so well with your new blue fingertips?

Your most prized real estate is subcutaneous fat! Where to put the CGMS sensor; the infusion site for the pump; the rotations for symlin shots!

You don't want to wear a bathing suit because of purple bolus bruises on your thighs.

You can bolus your butt with one hand without looking.

..when you start to develop a taste for Glucola.

...you think of supermarkets as facinating carb counting research libraries. You browse the shelves, pulling down packaged items and marvel at their carb per serving analysis.

...You and your diabetic friends animatedly debate the concept of "effective carbs" vs not deducting fiber.

...You hold monthly reading groups, where the members bring ingredient labels and discuss things like fat absorption ratios and sugar alcohol.

...Twice a year you host potlucks at which everyone has to eat the same food and guess their 2 hour BG. Closest wins the door prize, a Swiss-built computerized gram scale with wireless connection to USDA food value databases. and wikipedia.

...You think of that old Pac Man game as a graphic representation of insulin going after blood sugar.

...you think the ADA is trying to kill you.

I thought all runners did that.

When you know how to cook eggs 1001 ways!

~Danielle

Eggs up , eggs down, eggs over, eggs fried with dippie broke, eggs scrambled,
eggs hard, eggs soft, hmmmmm

I have to get all those 101 ways down.

Ralph