Diabetes And Beer

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Comment by Robert on February 12, 2009 at 3:46pm

Some great initiate here ! I remember my first drink as a 15 year old following an all day game of cricket (vaguely like baseball to folks in the US, idea is to belt the crap out of a ball ! ) in temperatures that ranged from 100 to 108 F. Mode of transport was a bicycle and didn't work out too well on the way home following 2 large bottles downed in a fairly short time frame with no food intake. .
A typical South Australian hot, dry summer day in a country town with corrugated windswept dirt roads was not a good combination for an inebriated 15 year old that hit a rock, went down a flood drain on the side into a pile of prickly tumbleweeds, large round spiky things with hundreds of prickles, Took about a week to transform back to normal instead of a pin cushion !
Keep these stories up folks there must be some great ones amongst us.

Comment by JerryInPDX on February 12, 2009 at 9:05am

LOL thats funny! Thats using your 'betes to your advantage! Kinda reminds me when I went to an undisclosed sandy place while in the USMC, we had a air cond trailer for crypto gear, the little crawl space was handy for cooling more than the equipment, i was a well liked fellow out there hehehe.

Comment by Greg on February 12, 2009 at 7:12am

Not a great story, but it relates to diabetes & beer:
When I was a diabetes camp counselor years and years ago, the counselors all rotated every fourth day off. The camp was out in the woods and I didn't have a car, so there was not a lot to do except go hiking on days off. One day I hiked out onto a rural road and found a gas station that sold beer to 19 year olds, so camp became a lot more fun. Getting a case of beer into camp and keeping it hidden from the director, nurses and kids was a complicated endeavor that involved burying the beer by a creek and retrieving cans under cover of darkness, then smuggling the crushed empties out in a laundry sack. Eventually I had to find another way to keep the beer cold yet hidden nearby so I wouldn't have to go hunting around in the dark with a flashlight again and again. (Plus an owl really spooked me one night.) The camp had one refrigerator in the medical hut, and that was used to keep the summer supply of insulin cold. Lilly donated a ton of different insulins to the camp, including boxes of about 50 vials of NPH purified beef insulin. (Remember, this was years ago.) We soon discovered that all the kids used Humalog, so the purified beef insulin was wasting valuable fridge space, as far as I was concerned. I found that I could hide 4 cans of beer in those beef insulin boxes at the bottom of the fridge, and go to the fridge frequently with syringe in hand, telling the nurses I was there to take a shot to correct a high blood-glucose.

Comment by Robert on February 11, 2009 at 5:56pm

Does any one have any pet stories relating to the amber fluids.? I remember a long time ago here in Australia , an outback pub was host to a farmer and his horse who both regularly fronted up to the bar for an ale or 2 !

Comment by Ryan on February 11, 2009 at 4:38pm

you can get a pretty good starter kit fairly cheaply on the net, we actually have a homebrew supply store right here in town so it makes it pretty quick and easy to get the stuff. I'd recommend brewing to everyone it's a lot of fun to sip a nice cold one and know that it really is your beer

Comment by JerryInPDX on February 11, 2009 at 12:30pm

lol yikes! I may need to get into brewing lol

Comment by Ryan on February 11, 2009 at 12:10pm

the barelywine we just brewed has the potential to be above 12% :) the belgian is around 6 % and the porter that was our first attempt came out wickedly smooth and 5%

Comment by JerryInPDX on February 11, 2009 at 11:44am

<<<<drooling>>>> Wish I had the time to brew.... Right before I was diagnosed, I picked up a half-barrel of Deschutes Jubleale (http://www.deschutesbrewery.com/brews/seasonal-ales/jubelale/default.aspx) good stuff, strong (almost 7%). Trying to pace myself, but not have to dump it.

Comment by Ryan on February 11, 2009 at 11:32am

My roomate and I actually brew our own beer, gives me a pretty good control over the amount of carbs :) curently we just laid in a half-keg of belgian wheat and i have a five gallons of a barleywine style ale fermenting right next to me :)

Comment by Rick Phillips on February 11, 2009 at 4:55am

I once drank that much beer at one setting. Then when I got off the floor I enjoyed the porcelain alter for a few hours. Darn those were the days. LOL

Rick

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