You know youre a diabetic when.....

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Permalink Reply by Kelly Rawlings on February 26, 2009 at 9:39pm

You know you're diabetic when you decide to wear only clothes with waistbands (no dresses*) because you prefer to clip your pump there.

*If I ever get invited to a big party, the Oscars or the first annual TuDiabetes Prom (come on, Manny, that should be no problem to organize), and want to wear a slinky evening gown, I will invest in a thigh garter to hold my pump!

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Permalink Reply by Adriana on February 26, 2009 at 10:30pm

You say that you feel ‘high’ in public and then wonder why people around you give you weird looks
You think non diet coke tastes completely disgusting
You notice a friend has been drinking and peeing a lot and you want to test their BG level as you automatically assume they must be an undiagnosed diabetic

You know what the terms HbA1C, diabetic ketoacidosis, glucagon, basal/bolus, and endocrinologist mean
When You Tell Your Family, Friends That You Feel Sick And They Ask "Are You Having A Low or A High?

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Permalink Reply by MelissaBL on February 27, 2009 at 7:05am

I love that you called coke "non diet coke." I'm going to start doing that. :)

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Permalink Reply by debb on February 27, 2009 at 7:17am

when you plan an outing with your family and your thinking ....now what can i get away with in the way of food so i can pretend to be as nornal as possible. and my grandson says, what can we take for you nonnie? he even went and grabbed a couple of diet peach snapple teas and put them in the car for me. why do we think it's so sweet from our little ones and we get mad at the adults if they do the same thing? bottom line is they all love us. i try very hard to remember that.

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Permalink Reply by Linzie Wohletz on February 27, 2009 at 5:27pm

When you have a low blood sugar and you text someone that would understand what BG 49 means!!! I love you all. I feel so at home here...

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Permalink Reply by Linda Gauvin-Miller on February 27, 2009 at 5:30pm

Linzie....hey, eat something! :)

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Permalink Reply by Sugarpants on February 28, 2009 at 8:35am

Your pump alarms in the middle of the night because it's out of insulin.... it sounds like a British Cop Car (eeeee ah eeeee ah eeeee ah)..... and you keep on falling back to sleep.

Soon after diagnosis in 1980, I totalled my car due to a low. My drivers license was cancelled. Finally, the DMV gave it back but I had to carry candy and that was on my record. I guess they will ask to "see my candy"?

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Permalink Reply by debb on February 28, 2009 at 9:00am

i can see it now. what no candy??? please step out of the car. may we search your car?

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan on February 28, 2009 at 11:22am

When, after a day struggling to get under 200 all day long and finally getting there before bed, you get really low over night and the first thing you do, after snarfing some glucose tablets, is log on to Tudiabetes to see what's going on at 2:30 in the morning.

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Permalink Reply by Linda Gauvin-Miller on February 28, 2009 at 1:02pm

When someone at church gives you the evil eye for eating something during mass.(mind you I was discreet...not as if I was feasting on a sandwich, or anything of the sort!)

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Permalink Reply by saundra barragan on February 28, 2009 at 1:44pm

I really had to laugh at both of these last things. I have done that over and over Jonathan and could see me as i was reading your post And Linda I did that at a funeral a few months ago. I was being very quiet but the standing and sitting during mass with the sweating and shaking was getting more than I could do. I took out a pice of hard candy from a lifesavers roll and heard the woman to the left, in front of me say to her husband, "look at her, you would think it wouldn't hurt her to wait a few minutes".

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Permalink Reply by debb on February 28, 2009 at 2:19pm

sandy, that's when you cross your eyes and stick out your tougue. can you imagine what she would have to say to that? lol !!!!

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