Re: Stuck myself with the cat's lancet

On Jun 22, 1:03 am, Oleg Lego <> wrote:
> 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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Please do not misunderstand....I was *not* belittling your glucose
level or
level of diabetes by relating my usual level. Without describing my
health
problems in detail I will truthfully state that I am fairly sure that
what will
kill me will *not* be diabetes, due to other factors. Frankly, most of
what
I read on your website about it was *way* over my head and in my
personal
battle led by my doc (internal medicine) the enemy is *triglycerides*
and
CAD....a different ballpark (or battlefield, if you will).