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Originally Posted by Captain Snooze
I'm sorry to read that.
I believe you.
It took me a long time to accept/be comfortable with diabetes. I did some damage to my eyes during my rebellious years but thankfully good control reversed that damage.
Seriously, the glass syringes that had to be sterilised each morning was a pain but not nearly as painful as the huge, veterinary sized needles at the time. The needles would be used over and over again until they got blunt then they would be resharpened. *shudder*
The concept of pumps scares the crap out of me. There is no way I could go that route and the few people I've spoken to with pumps and patch/"continuous" blood glucose monitoring have all had higher HbA1c readings than me.
Now days I sum it up like this: the worse thing about diabetes is that there is never a holiday from it. The best thing is I don't have something far worse.
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my dad's a type 2. he's started looking into a pump/monitor due to drastic fluctuations at work. he's crashed a couple times now due to stress/weather--last time, it was stress on a job that we couldn't get answers for within a completely unrealistic time frame, the time before, he dressed for working outside on a lift in 40 degree weather, it turned out to be an extremely cold windy 60, so he sweated it all out, but never noticed because of the wind, fire department got called for that one... it terrifies me every time.
as long as you've got it under control, there's really no reason to look into a pump.
just remember-- even superman had his kryptonite
