Comments on: back in the old days… http://www.diabetic.netslonguirado.com/2004/05/25/back-in-the-old-days/ Blog for the diabetics who use an insulin pump to control diabetes Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:44:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: carolann_70 http://www.diabetic.netslonguirado.com/2004/05/25/back-in-the-old-days/#comment-23675 carolann_70 Thu, 27 May 2004 15:38:29 +0000 http://www.diabetic.netslonguirado.com/2004/05/25/back-in-the-old-days/#comment-23675 And to save a bit of $, I used to tear off a shorter hunk and get pee all over my hand. I met a lady whose husband only showed urine sugar when his BG was 286!! That was such a poor way to know a glucose level. And 4 hours after the fact, to boot. I remember feeling low and having 4+ tests. It laid guilt on me because the test didn't match my senses - therefore, *I* had to be wrong! WRONG!! > Now I feel like one of those codgers who used to hike to school ten > miles in the snow uphill both ways! Yeah, it happens to the best of us. With the Continuous Glucose Monitoring System becoming available, etc., some day, *today* will be the olden days for newbies. Jan (60 y/o, T-1 11/5/50, pmpg 8/23/83) And to save a bit of $, I used to tear off a shorter hunk and get pee all
over my hand. I met a lady whose husband only showed urine sugar when his BG
was 286!! That was such a poor way to know a glucose level. And 4 hours
after the fact, to boot. I remember feeling low and having 4+ tests. It
laid guilt on me because the test didn’t match my senses - therefore, *I*
had to be wrong! WRONG!!

> Now I feel like one of those codgers who used to hike to school ten
> miles in the snow uphill both ways!

Yeah, it happens to the best of us. With the Continuous Glucose Monitoring
System becoming available, etc., some day, *today* will be the olden days
for newbies.
Jan (60 y/o, T-1 11/5/50, pmpg 8/23/83)

]]> By: antoinette_5 http://www.diabetic.netslonguirado.com/2004/05/25/back-in-the-old-days/#comment-23674 antoinette_5 Wed, 26 May 2004 17:13:56 +0000 http://www.diabetic.netslonguirado.com/2004/05/25/back-in-the-old-days/#comment-23674 What I pray for is that 5 years from now we can sit around and talk about how it was to be diabetic and these days will be the good old days. I was talking to my educator and she feels we are 5 years away. Hopefully someone will be on the mark soon. Frank What I pray for is that 5 years from now we can sit around and talk
about how it was to be diabetic and these days will be the good old
days. I was talking to my educator and she feels we are 5 years away.
Hopefully someone will be on the mark soon.

Frank

]]> By: silvana_16 http://www.diabetic.netslonguirado.com/2004/05/25/back-in-the-old-days/#comment-23673 silvana_16 Wed, 26 May 2004 04:42:22 +0000 http://www.diabetic.netslonguirado.com/2004/05/25/back-in-the-old-days/#comment-23673 << Laurie, who got an extra-large hot water heater with one year's Christmas bonus JUST for long showers <g> >> Aha! So that's how you did it! :-) Patrick << Laurie, who got an extra-large hot water heater with one year’s
Christmas bonus JUST for long showers <g>
>>

Aha! So that’s how you did it! :-)
Patrick

]]> By: carolann_70 http://www.diabetic.netslonguirado.com/2004/05/25/back-in-the-old-days/#comment-23672 carolann_70 Tue, 25 May 2004 23:00:06 +0000 http://www.diabetic.netslonguirado.com/2004/05/25/back-in-the-old-days/#comment-23672 Laurie, Did you see my pic with my first pump - the size of a checkbook box? If not, I can forward it to you if you want. I have my Clinitest set and a bottle of Acetone tablets - no Clinitest tabs though. The Acetone tabs needed a drop of urine on them to detect acetone in the urine. They stayed their original color or turned shades of purple depending on severity. I don't know when it changed to ketones. I would suspect those tablets were very dangerous for children. I saw many, many tomato-soup colored urine tests with the Clinitest. Still have the chart that went from dark blue to green to orange with shades in between: 0 - 4+. One gal said hers always turned out *good* using 3 drops of urine to 12 drops of water (5:10). I'm having a BASH (Bawling, Amazed anyone would care to come, Sincerity, Humor) 11/4/00 to observe 50 years of life/survival of the coma 11/5/50. I will have a display of my collection of DM products over the last 5 decades. I have several old items: A tester with about 5 little balls in it that you filled <!--more--> with urine and depending on the floating ability of the balls it told your kidney function; my 2nd pump; glass syringe and 24g 1/2" needle; B-D automatic injector; Rx'd diet (that dietitian is still alive and will be invited); a tall skinny bottle of Velosulin before it was buffered; and lots more. Ahhh, the memories! What's good about the good old days? They're GONE! Jan Wow, guys, thanks for all the "shower" replies! This is so cool, having real-life people to ask practical questions. The discussion of how things USED to be took me back to 1959, when I was diagnosed at age 3, and the way to check sugars was to collect a test tube of urine, drop a tablet in it and wait for the color to change. Blue meant "negative," purple meant "high sugar." That was it. Then in the 60s, a tremendous breakthrough: TesTape, which you'd peel off a roll like Scotch tape and dip in urine -- the darker the green color, the higher the sugar. Now I feel like one of those codgers who used to hike to school ten miles in the snow uphill both ways! Laurie, who got an extra-large hot water heater with one year's Christmas bonus JUST for long showers <g> Laurie,
Did you see my pic with my first pump - the size of a checkbook box? If not,
I can forward it to you if you want. I have my Clinitest set and a bottle
of Acetone tablets - no Clinitest tabs though. The Acetone tabs needed a
drop of urine on them to detect acetone in the urine. They stayed their
original color or turned shades of purple depending on severity. I don’t
know when it changed to ketones. I would suspect those tablets were very
dangerous for children. I saw many, many tomato-soup colored urine tests
with the Clinitest. Still have the chart that went from dark blue to green
to orange with shades in between: 0 - 4+. One gal said hers always turned
out *good* using 3 drops of urine to 12 drops of water (5:10). I’m having a
BASH (Bawling, Amazed anyone would care to come, Sincerity, Humor) 11/4/00
to observe 50 years of life/survival of the coma 11/5/50. I will have a
display of my collection of DM products over the last 5 decades. I have
several old items: A tester with about 5 little balls in it that you filled

with urine and depending on the floating ability of the balls it told your
kidney function; my 2nd pump; glass syringe and 24g 1/2" needle; B-D
automatic injector; Rx’d diet (that dietitian is still alive and will be
invited); a tall skinny bottle of Velosulin before it was buffered; and lots
more. Ahhh, the memories! What’s good about the good old days? They’re GONE!
Jan

Wow, guys, thanks for all the "shower" replies! This is so cool, having
real-life people to ask practical questions.

The discussion of how things USED to be took me back to 1959, when I was
diagnosed at age 3, and the way to check sugars was to collect a test
tube of urine, drop a tablet in it and wait for the color to change.
Blue meant "negative," purple meant "high sugar." That was it.

Then in the 60s, a tremendous breakthrough: TesTape, which you’d peel
off a roll like Scotch tape and dip in urine — the darker the green
color, the higher the sugar.

Now I feel like one of those codgers who used to hike to school ten
miles in the snow uphill both ways!

Laurie, who got an extra-large hot water heater with one year’s
Christmas bonus JUST for long showers <g>

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