Re: Stuck myself with the cat's lancet

"hopitus" <hopitus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> 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.
>>
>> --
>>  roses are #FF0000
>>  violets are #0000FF
>>  all my base
>>  are belong to you
>
> 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).

High triglycerides are due to high BGs--excess BG is converted into 
triglycerides.  So if one of your main issues is triglycerides, then one
of 
your main issue IS diabetes.  If you get your BGs down, your triglycerides

will come down.
-- 
Best regards,
Michelle C., T2
diet & exercise
BMI 21.5