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Permalink Reply by Marie B on June 9, 2010 at 8:35am

gee Danny, I had that meter too. here's a picture of my first meter, around 1980

http://www.google.com/imglanding?q=ames%20glucometer&imgurl=htt...

Permalink Reply by Doris D on August 14, 2010 at 7:38pm

I had that one too Marie! Funny how we done things then huh? I remember all the things they had there.

Permalink Reply by Sandy Palmer on March 28, 2011 at 6:42pm

Had that one too. I wish I had kept the stuff through the years.

Permalink Reply by Frank Kwiatkowski on June 9, 2010 at 10:51am

This book is what I left the hospital with back in '82. They gave me two copies. I still have them both.

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Permalink Reply by Frank Kwiatkowski on June 9, 2010 at 11:07am

Yeah, I like to look at visuals on the disease. A lot of the emaciated people I do block prints from come from the era of the starvation treatment. I wish there were more.

Permalink Reply by dgzee on December 26, 2011 at 7:09pm

Very Cool. Thanks for the images. ...I hope you didn't also save that orange they made you practice injections with. ~<:-D

Permalink Reply by Frank Kwiatkowski on June 9, 2010 at 11:36am

Photo of me while in hospital. October 1982.

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Permalink Reply by Frank Kwiatkowski on June 9, 2010 at 1:27pm

Unfortunately they're all family. I remember a few good looking nurses, though. My oldest sister had on this Pac Man t-shirt. Incidentally, Pac Man just turned thirty. He's a little older than I am in diabetic years. Yeah, being in the hospital was a weird experience. I still think they let somebody else loose, like Dr. Frankenstein's monster. I'm a bastard still lookin' for my creator.

Permalink Reply by FatCatAnna on June 10, 2010 at 8:51am

Lucky you - you got to be in the children's ward. We didn't have one close enough when I was diagnosed in '68 - so I was in the old farts group (6 to a room). I was coddled alot because of being so young, since everyone else was Type 2 on the floor I was residing on (for 2 weeks while they tried to figure out an insulin regime for me).

Permalink Reply by Frank Kwiatkowski on June 9, 2010 at 2:35pm

Here's a shot of me--I think before my incarceration in the hospital. Notice the ET t-shirt.

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Permalink Reply by dgzee on November 24, 2012 at 4:54pm

i looked a lot like that too not before they found out i had it too. strangely, no one really noticed. have to see if i can find a picture.

Permalink Reply by T1Student on June 10, 2010 at 7:58am

AutoSyringe which came out about 1980 and the Minimed that was released in the 1990's.

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