something different for once?

willie4004 · #1 (**permalink**) 03-22-2008, 10:35 PM

Lets poke fun at our diabetes for once and try to think of something funny about diabetes...

Mine would be when I am at a restaurant and I have shorts on and I give myself a shot in my thigh (or arm or stomach) where some people can see... then I tell them I have to take 10 shots a day of this "methadone" stuff for my crippling heroin addiction gets a good reaction

George83 · #2 (**permalink**) 03-22-2008, 11:23 PM

After my boxing class at the gym I tell people i'm going to go home and jab myself in the stomach before I have dinner.

kstreeter513 · #3 (**permalink**) 03-23-2008, 03:09 PM

Yeah, I'm going to start telling people at the gym I dosing my steroids

...oh wait, I pump **** it.

UpNorth · #4 (**permalink**) 03-23-2008, 03:36 PM

It's so much fun to see people's faces when testing and injecting in public

Or pretending to get an allergic shock or something when having some sweet stuff after having a food nazi saying "should you be eating that?"

alicat61 · #5 (**permalink**) 03-23-2008, 04:23 PM

Hi
I'm always telling People I have to shoot up and pop some more pills.

Many years ago (Just after I was diagnosed)I was out at a club In Kings Cross in Sydney with a group of people some I knew some I didn't.
The people I didn't know saw me have my insulin in the bathroom and came racing out to the others to tell them I was doing drugs. I got a good laugh at that

Subby · #6 (**permalink**) 03-23-2008, 08:38 PM

Some years ago I was unwittingly instrumental in collaring some drug dealers, because of my diabetes. Let me explain...

In a dodgy, druggy part of Melbourne (Russell St) a friend and I ordered a souvlaki from a dodgy souvlaki shop. I did what I always did, turned my back (towards a large window as it happened) and whipped out a syringe, dosed up, lifted my shirt and injected.

My friend was looking out the window which led onto a side alley, and saw a policeman caught stunned for a moment as he saw me, then shake his head and relax as he realized I must be a diabetic, shooting into my stomach in public as I was.

I finished and turned back to the counter to see a guy near the door staring at me with his face drained and wide with horror - he parted his arms and from beneath his overcoat a a lot of small druggie things went clattered to the ground... had obviously watched me shoot up and seen the interest of the policeman and thought "ohhh s#!9TD! a bust!"... he turned and raced out of the door... straight into the policeman who was just coming round the corner.

I knew something had happened but I wasn't sure what. My friend and I got our souvlakis and walked down the street, weaving past the cops and bedraggled looking guy, and my friend filled me in on what had happened, to which, as usual, I was pretty much oblivious at the time.

markr · #7 (**permalink**) 03-24-2008, 05:26 AM

Living in Israel and wearing a pump, I set off security alarms all the time. Also, having a plastic wire sticking out of my pants (I will keep it clean) has caused some problems for me too. As more and more of us are wearing pumps here, security personal are slowly becoming aware. You know you are in Israel when security personal checks you going into a store and not when you are leaving a store.

birdyland · #8 (**permalink**) 03-24-2008, 12:56 PM

I keep my dinner dose of insulin in my glasses case when I go to school. One night, new class, new group, new people, I took my glasses out and inadvertantly left my case open, on the table. No big deal to me, but later I came back in from break and heard them discussing that I was a druggie! They were sooooo embarassed, even more so when I told them what was in the needle!