[Diabetes-talk] a little humor in blood testing

[Jude DaShiell]

It helps sometimes to run warm water over your hands just before you sit 
down to do the testing.  Generally when people eat the blood moves out 
of extremities and into the core of the body in order to digest the 
food.  Even with the solo meter, I have had my share of failed tests 
until I started getting used to doing  them and I wrote about that on 
this list.

On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Julie Kline wrote:

> This is primarily to Star Gazer but could be of interest to anyone, but I
> wanted to offer my recent testing experience during one night this week,
> after our meal was done and dishes were put away, etc. etc., I made myself
> sit down at our kitchen table with my solo meter and a paper towel and
> decided I was going to give testing another go.  It was at a time in the
> evening where I wasn't rushing off to be somewhere (rare for me) and not
> during a morning or time of day where I had to rush off to work or someplace
> else (again, extremely rare for me since we're always going).  My doctor is
> mainly interested in fasting blood sugar numbers so he probably wouldn't
> have cared about this test, but I figured I may as well start somewhere.  It
> wasn't the 30 second test that most people seem to experience here.  As a
> matter of fact, it took me probably 4 or 5 minutes, 3 different test strips,
> the use of 3 fingers, and 4 sticks with the lancing device set on the
> highest it would go to finally get it right where I had enough blood to make
> the damn thing work.  (I wonder with the number of items I mentioned here if
> they'd make a Christmas carol out of my testing debacle).  Anyway, I got
> enough to finally get a reading.  It was the only time this week I ever
> messed with the meter.  Prior to that, I haven't touched the meter in
> several months because things took so long to do.  I guess what I wonder
> from that is maybe I should practice at a time where I'm not against a
> deadline, even if my doc or no one else will care about the result.  I know
> when I decided to try taking up testing again, I look back on that night and
> find the humor there even if it was a handful of things to coordinate.   At
> any rate, if things don't go smoothly for you, you can think of my story.
> good luck.
> 
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