| Mike - I'm with you. Can you donate blood? I never could - if they'd leave me passed out I might be okay, but they always try to bring me to before they finish! But after many, many years of not even trying to donate I figured - with all those injections, etc, surely I could be a donor now! Nope. Not at all. Didn't work. Ain't gonna happen! Passed out. Came to with them patting my hand and calling my name - to find out if I wanted them to continue!! COME ON PEOPLE! While I'm out - drain it dry!!! So ... not again.
Counting to 3 doesn't do it for me - I count to 5. I've also been known to sing "Yankee Doodle" really loud with a larger injection that took longer - the old Lantus days were my Yankee Doodle star days. The pens didn't bother me as much as the syringes did. I think this is strange - I find it much easier to look in a mirror to use the pen in my stomach. I can't look at it going in - but in the mirror the needle is hidden by the pen. I appreciate blood test areas that have posters - especially really busy ones with lots to look at.
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Type 1.5 diagnosed 1994 after ? years of undiagnosed symptoms
MM 722 10/10/2006
June A1C 9.9 (ewwwww!)
Sept A1C 7.6 (better!)
Dec A1C 7.2 (not as better as I'd hoped)
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