Re: Stuck myself with the cat's lancet

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:16:09 -0700 (PDT), hopitus posted:

>On Jun 21, 4:35 pm, "W. Baker" <wba...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In alt.sup****t.diabetes Richard Evans <info...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> : The cat and I are both diabetic. I check my own sugar 6-8 times per
>> : day, I check his twice. We have separate glucometer kits. Today,
while
>> : preparing to check the cat's sugar, I had a brain fart and instead of
>> : lancing the cat I lanced my own forearm with a lancet that had been
>> : previously used on the cat.
>>
>> : I immediately rinsed it with alcohol, but what are the chances I
>> : caught anything from the incident?
>>
>> Well, if you start to prowl at night and start to grow whiskers, I
would
>> begin to worry:-)
>>
>> Wendy
>
>First - to Richard Evans, who has diabetes much worse than I do,
>obviously.
>I am on *your* side, dude...only criticism of you I have is that you
>joined
>the chorus of fruitcakes posting what *MOST* diabetics do with their
>lancets (reuse or not)! My sugar range is always less than 200. I have
>other health concerns than Type 2..

Many of us do have other health concerns, of course.

One thing though, many of us here would be trying hard to figure out
what went wrong is we could describe out sugar range as "always less
than 200". Personally, I want to describe it as "always under 140",
regardless of when I test.

>Now: how do we know Mr. Evans does NOT prowl at night, or if he indeed
>has whiskers? Answer: we don't.
>Mr. Evans please do not confuse my posts with the other wacko(s) who
>badmouth you about the lancets. Thank you.

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