You know - if it's not one thing, it's another. Medical things and I just aren't getting along.
I decided to get the glucose meter to keep tabs on the blood sugar thing. I stopped at the drug store yesterday, talked to the pharmacist and got a meter he recommended.
I brought it home, went upstairs to work on WK's road track while I experimented with that meter. After five or so strips, I finally got one to work. Now - there were far more than five sticks with the "painless lancets."
I decided to try it first thing this morning. After my final success yesterday, I thought I had the hang of it. No, nope, nein. I have come to the conclusion that I simply don't bleed. I ended up with three sticks this morning -in places I thought I would bleed - well.
The first test was not enough blood. Hurt like heck, but not enough blood. The second, by the time I got blood and put it on the strip - the machine had gone off. That ruined that strip. So in disgust I simply got up.
At the rate I'm going, I will have used the month's supply of strips before the week is out!
I think what I need to do is get some snow white expensive fabric, make a garment that is 90% complete, stick some straight pins in it, and sew more. I will guarantee that I will stick my finger on a pin and bleed, as we often say in Texas, "like a stuck hog" on that white material thus ruining the garment!
So I have one more thing to complain about. Getting really boring!
Peace.
3 comments:
It takes a while to get the feeling for those sticks right. I always use my finger. It's just easier for me than trying to get a good enough blood spot from anywhere else! You'll get the hang of it!
I use my fingers too..and I use the number between 1 and 2 it usually is a little deeper than a 1 but I'm always assured that I'll have enough blood.
You know, when I saw the title, I thought we were going to get a whole "nother" kind of post. :-)
Good luck with the strips! I am sure I'd end up poking my eye out and cutting my hand off.
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