Dear all.
I wonder why insulin dependent diabetic are given fridges? I have
been diabetic since 1956 and passed through three Colleges and one
University (all 'in Hall' resident) without a fridge to keep my
insulin in. Most of the diabetics I have come accross keep
diet-coke in their fridges. Why cannot they just keep the insulin
somewhere cool?
Anyway, Beds County Council have just agreed to give my latest
diabetic a blood glucometer - more discreet for the all important
blood/insulin sugar level monitoring during lectures. These only
cost about £50 and offer the facility of preventing hypoglycemic (low
bllod sugar) reactions - loss of concentration, tiredness, etc.
leading eventually to coma. This after all is the only major
disabling factor at the early stages of diabetes.
OK, so I can see the 'better safe than sorry' sense in a fridge
really, only I am sure, as a life-long Mellitic diabetic, that a
blood glucometer is more use by far!
Well done BEDFORD.
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Stephen Lancaster
NHC-NFAC
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