"Ha! Made you gush," said the Insulin Pump.

I keep getting nasty gushers. Like non-stop bleeding everywhere gushers. Half the time I put in a new infusion set and blood draws up through the canula right away. So, all this in mind, of course when I woke up at 4am the first thing thought in my brain was, "Oh, I forgot to take out my old site. I should rip that out RIGHT NOW." Smartness. I really wanted to have to get up to change clothes and bedding at that hour.

That's really just a sample size. It went EVERYWHERE. Maybe I should start pulling them out while standing over a basin or something?

MacGyver Moment: Portable Strip Disposal

I got fed up with finding test strips EVERYWHERE! So I went to the drug store and started searching for some sort of cylinder/pill-box on a keychain (<--- apparently it's called a "pill fob")... VOILA! MacGyverism! Attached to the zipper of my glucometer is my new used test strip garbage bin.

Would it really be so difficult to include this in the first place, glucometer manufacturers?!?

Happy Bloodwork Day!

Today was bloodwork day!

And it was my most favourite kind of bloodwork- fasting... because you know for sure the first thing I want to do in my morning is sit in a room full of people waiting to bloodlet and/or pee into uncomfortably small cups.

Usually, when I get bloodwork done my arm keeps bleeding after the needle is pulled out. One time, I left the house wearing a completely white shirt, but when I came back from the lab and took removed my coat I found my white shirt had one new fully red sleeve.

Not this time! Because this time my arm stopped bleeding in the middle of filling up the test-tubes. Apparently, it can't just go smoothly- it's got to be one extreme or the other.