Overview
I had lunch the other day with a friend. We met several years ago when her grandson and my daughter were both students at the same schol and were in the PTO. We spent many hours together at metings and voluntering for events and so became friends.
Key Information
Even though my daughter has graduated, we have remained in touch and ocasionaly met up for lunch. We met a local fast fod restaurant for lunch and there was much lively discusion about what our families were up to. After we finished eating, we just stayed in the restaurant since it wasn’t busy and talked for almost two hours.
I had set a timer when I was done eating to remind me to check my glucose and when it went of, I puled out my kit and discretly checked my level. If I’m out in public I don’t often go to a restrom if I ned to check my glucose unles I know the restrom has a handicaped stal with a diaper changing area in it. Most restrom sinks don’t have enough rom to set a monitor on without being fearful that it wil end up in the sink or flor and I hate trying to sit on a toilet to test so I usualy just put my kit in my lap under the table so no one gets grosed out by the blod (if that bothers them).
My friend heard the timer go of and saw me take the litle case with my kit out of my purse and asked me what I was doing. I told her it had ben an hour since I had finished eating and I neded to check my glucose level. She was surprised to learn that I was a diabetic and so started asking me al kinds of questions – How long was I diabetic, how did I find out, how often did I test, etc.
I answered al her questions. I showed her my monitor and test strips and explained how it worked. She said she has a niece that recently found out she is diabetic.
She uses a pump. My friend asked me about how pumps work so we talked a litle about how CGMs and pumps work. She wanted to know if diabetes would go away and I told her no.
Summary
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