You know youre a diabetic when.....

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Permalink Reply by Lucile K. on October 16, 2009 at 6:24am

You know you're a diabetic when you give a small package of mixed nuts to each trick-or-treater for Halloween because you can't trust yourself with bags of low-carb or sugar-free candies in the house.

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Permalink Reply by Natalie Town on October 16, 2009 at 10:15am

.....when your significant other wakes up upon hearing strange noises in the middle of the night and, fearing a wild animal is foraging for food, goes to the kitchen to investigate to find you, lying on the floor, naked (because with clothes on you feel like you may spontaneously combust) with your head in the fridge (because being naked isn't enough to cool you down) with a pint of milk pouring out of your mouth and chocolate all over your face.........and his reaction is to grunt, say "Oh, thank god it's just you" and return to bed.

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Permalink Reply by Linda Gauvin-Miller on October 16, 2009 at 1:28pm

AHHHH...to funny lol (well, funny now!!) So....what....you just put your head back in the fridge & went to sleep...or did he turn around and come back for you??

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Permalink Reply by Natalie Town on October 16, 2009 at 1:37pm

Thankfully, I recovered sufficiently from my hypo, dressed because I was suddenly freezing and headed back to bed. Lol. Bless him, he has seen too much of my bizarre night time behavior to be fazed.

I have another...

You know you are diabetic when the words "predisposed" or "common" as in, "well, diabetics are predisposed to fungal infections" or "weight gain is common in diabetics" make you want to assault the speaker....

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Permalink Reply by Linda Gauvin-Miller on October 16, 2009 at 2:45pm

So true...doesn't it make you feel like a science project!!!

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Permalink Reply by Laurie Brown on October 17, 2009 at 6:15am

You know you're a diabetic when your pod sets up a howl at lunch time and your co-workers start make jokes about the mother-ship coming to get you!

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Steinhart on November 22, 2009 at 11:43am

You know you're diabetic when you go the mickey d's just because they put carb info on their wrappers

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Steinhart on November 22, 2009 at 12:15pm

you call the fingerstick things at your GP "mideval torture devices"

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Steinhart on November 22, 2009 at 12:23pm

you are friends with somebody from your school's biggest rival only because you are both diabetics

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Steinhart on November 22, 2009 at 12:39pm

you are on hormone replacement therapy b4 your mother

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Permalink Reply by John Brush on November 22, 2009 at 7:37pm

Your opening line to a woman is "what brand of meter do you use?"

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Permalink Reply by Linda Gauvin-Miller on November 23, 2009 at 3:37am

That's a cute pick up line :)

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