[Stuboy]

Tonight Laura and I went to a resturant. I ordered a diet coke and made a bit of a fuss that it should definatly be diet. The first drink was diet...

But sinse we had to wait for a HOUR for our food, we inevitably ran out of drink! So i ordered a re-fill, again emphasising diet coke please.

The girl who brought the new drink to the table wasn't our waitress apparently, i didn't see her i was too busy tucking into the food that eventually arrived.

Anyway, i must have drunk about 3/4 of a pint of the second drink before Laura took a sip and said "this isn't diet!" I took another small sip, it tasted like diet to me...

I thought maybe it was a weak mixure, so i did the finger dip test... didn't feel too sticky, but laura disagreed...

Then i remembered that some meters can read the sugar in drinks... i had tried this with my ultrasmart before which didnt' work, but hadn't yet tried it with my new compact plus meter. so i did... and to my horror it read "HI"
I tested my blood.... 18.7mmol/L !! I hadn't had enough of the food yet for it to affect that much that quickly either...

We complained and the manager came over (about 10 minutes later) and patronizingly said.... "do you need me to call anyone for you?" i was so tempted to say "well and ambulance would be a good start!" but i didn't... instead i just started rambling on about when someone asks for a diet coke they should get a diet coke... blah blah blah.

Anyway... i got him to wipe the bill clear so we ended up having a free meal! Im never sure what to really say in these situations! It's always hind-sight that i think of things i "should" have said... grrr

But here is a good tip... the Accu-Chek Compact Plus does read sugar in drinks!! We tested it again when we got home with diet lemonade, diet coke and full fat 7up. the diet drinks read ERR and the 7up read 17.8mmol/L, the full fat coke read "HI". So if you have this meter, and you're in doubt of your drink being diet... you can use your meter to find out.

I wish now i'd have told him i'll press charges if i end up in DKA later that night... but i didn't. I did tell him he needs to have a staff meeting to warn them all about situations like this, and he said he would definatly do that (but i dont know if i should beleive him)

silly people!