D-Blog Week – Day Three: Diabetes Bloopers

Today’s topic is Diabetes Bloopers: Whether you or your loved one are newly diagnosed or have been dealing with diabetes for a while, you probably realize that things can (and will) go wrong. But sometimes the things that go wrong aren’t stressful - instead sometimes they are downright funny! Go ahead and share your Diabetes Blooper - your “I can’t believe I did that" moment - your big “D-oh” - and let’s all have a good laugh together!!

A short post today... I wasn't sure that I'd have much to say about diabetes bloopers - I've done many daft things in my time, but not many that are laugh out loud funny! The classics include:

• Eating and forgetting to inject
• Getting interrupted during an injection and not being sure if I've had it or not... meaning either a double dose or no dose at all
• Mixing up my Novorapid and Lantus and taking a big whack of the wrong insulin (even worse when you're super insulin-resistant like me)
• Leaving the house with an empty pen, no test strips, or no meter batteries
• Digging in my handbag whilst hypo only to realise that the little piece of paper in the bottom is the empty wrapper from my glucose tablets
• Etc etc etc!
  

Grrrr! All rubbish things to do. However, this morning I managed to top them off with a real diabetes blooper. I dashed downstairs after feeding my little boy in order to feed myself and threw some toast in the toaster, which I then spread liberally with marmalade. Yum, thought I, until I got back upstairs, sat down on the bed, took a huge bite and remembered what my husband had told me yesterday when he baked the loaf... it was onion bread. I have to say that this was not a flavour combination to be repeated, but since I'd already breast-fed, was running a little low, and had bolused, I had little choice but to eat my avant garde breakfast. D'oh! :)