[Diabetes-talk] A question about travel and waste disposal

[Mike Freeman]

One can get little squares or circles of cotton at a drugstore or 
grocery store; I use them to staunch the blood after poking my finger 
and hold meter and finger over it so nothing drips. The things are about 
an inch and a half in diameter.

I use an old vitamin bottle to store needles, test strips and lancets in 
unless I forget! (grin)

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dmgina" <dmgina at qwest.net>
To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] A question about travel and waste disposal


Now tell me more about this Mike,
What is it you use?
I don't understand for what/

--Dar
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Every saint has a past
every sinner has a future

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] A question about travel and waste disposal


> Kijuana:
>
> Don't worry about it. With tissues, it's no different than if a kid 
> had
> a nosebleed and had to use tissues; you just throw them away in the
> usual waste receptacles. Technically, only the strips and lancets are
> defined as medical waste. I never throw away lancets because they're 
> too
> likely to stick some unwary garbage cleanup person. But, if the truth 
> be
> told, there have been occasions when I forgot to bring a receptacle 
> when
> I quietly threw a test strip iin the wastebasket. Not kosher, however,
> and I try to remember to bring a container.
>
> But I wouldn't worry about the tissues.
>
> I use little round cotton disks that one gets at the grocery store.
> They're great and they're thick enough that one can get several uses 
> out
> of each one; I keep one in my meter case. I'm told that they 
> eventually
> begin to look pretty gory, though; my social downfall is that I don't
> give a darn! Call me Rett Butler! <g>
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "kc" <kcc86 at hotmail.com>
> To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 5:00 PM
> Subject: [Diabetes-talk] A question about travel and waste disposal
>
>
> Hi, all.  :)  I'm about to take a couple of train trips that will last
> just over 25 hours each.  I will have to test before at least two 
> meals
> during that time.  I know I can bring a bottle for the needles and
> strips, but if I'd need to get rid of the tissues, are there rules on
> trains/plain/etc about disposal of such things?  I hope all of you 
> have
> had a great weekend.
> Hugs,
> Kijuana
>
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