Diabetes Bloopers: D-Blog Week (Day 3)

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Whether you or your loved one are newly diagnosed or have been dealing with diabetes for a while, you probably realize that things can (and will) go wrong.  But sometimes the things that go wrong aren’t stressful - instead sometimes they are downright funny!  Go ahead and share your Diabetes Blooper - your “I can’t believe I did that" moment - your big “D-oh” - and let’s all have a good laugh together!!


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Oh, come on. I'm perfect. Diabetes Bloopers? Yeah, right.

But, I mean, now that I think about it...

Perhaps I shouldn't have drank an entire Large-sized Coke Slurpie while going into Diabeticketoacidosis. I wish I had a picture of it, that thing was huge! Granted, I didn't know I was Diabetic, but nope, looking back, that probably didn't help.

My first night in the ER and I remember my Diabetic nurse explaining the concept of an insulin pump to me. I was pretty loopy, so naturally everything sounded funny. But I just remember envisioning this magic patch-thing you stuck to yourself, pressed some buttons and wha-bam, Diabetes fixed. Pssh. It turns our reality is far more disappointing. A needle with tape is a lot less high tech (not to mention creative) than my loopy self imagined.

Also my first night in the ER, I remember just about the only thing that came out of my mouth was, in my garbled voice, "mhhpgghh can I have a Coke Slurpee? Can you bring me a Coke Slurpee?" (mhhpgghh = improvisation for garbled loopy voice.) I asked my mom to bring me a Coke Slurpee in the morning. I asked my Dad to make sure my mom brought me a Coke Slurpee. I asked my nurse if I would be allowed to have a Coke Slurpee. I asked my Doctor if I could have a Coke Slurpee. I was obsessed. I was Coke Slurpee girl. Apparently, going into near coma was not enough to turn me off the things.

Getting hypoglycemic in the middle of work - dressed up as Cinderella and painting little kid's faces. "Cinderella, why are you eating that?" One of the little girls asks. "*Munch* Cinderella's fine. Her Fairy Godmother just forget to give her breakfast this morning."

Yesterday I started eating a mound of white rice only to realize halfway through that I had forgotten to give myself an insulin shot first. Yeah, oops.


Lesson learned from my imperfections? Diabetes may be a very serious thing, but finding humour from it can be just as important as taking the proper steps to take care of yourself.