Monday, May 21, 2012

Scissors required

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Friday, 04 June 2010 08:22
Did you guys know that you need SCISSORS to open these babies?

I had NO clue. Even though I have carried one or two around with me religiously for the last 8 months. And have also previously used them to decorate baked goods... (but who does THAT kind of crazy nonsense with cake gel?) I was giving our neighbor the rundown before we left to go out for dinner for the first time, and when I picked it up to show her, it just hit me.


I unscrewed the lid and stared at the sealed tip. Sealed. I tried to bite it,

to see if I could have gotten it open if I had needed it. No luck. Wow.


Also, I wanted to add that summer is just about here, and after our first ever post-diabetes swimming attempt, I learned two things:

1) Swimming makes Liam low, but only after I've checked several times and found him in a completely normal range.

2) After making a switch to the "physical" kind of sunblock, I can attest that the zinc stuff gives Liam exactly that pale, waxy look he gets when he actually is low. So I continued to stop him and check him- even after we had been home for hours- thinking he was low. This went on all day, because I repeatedly forgot why he looked pale until the meter was showing a decidedly un-low number. (Guess I was a bit too aggressive with the basal reductions at the pool?)

Happy Summer!

 
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