Diabetes Juvenil

You know you're a diabetic moving into a new place when:

You pack extra glucose meter test strips, baby diapers, and toilet paper into the same box because you know you will need both on the first day.You're watching at the window for the cable guy so you can get yourself back online and immersed in the diabetes blogosphere.You don't care that there's an ice maker in the new fridge, but more than there's a handy compartment that's PERFECT for insulin storage.There's a whole box labeled "Diabetes Supplies."
You're grateful that the hardwoods are being installed because it will be easier to find rogue test strips.The washer dryer combo looks like a spaceship command unit and you have no idea how to work it.  (Wait, that's just me?  Domestic goddess I am not.) Even though the fridge is almost entirely empty, there's still a bottle of grape juice at the ready.  (And a pitcher of iced coffee.  Priorities!!)You buy a smaller garbage can for the kitchen to leave room under the sink for a massive, red sharps container.
There's a space in the walk-in closet that's dedicated solely to stacking insets, insulin reservoirs, and test strip bottles.  Not to mention lancets, which I've had the same seven boxes for the last four years and I never manage to use them up.  (Something tells me I should change my lancet today.) And: You test the wall outlets by plugging the Dexcom receiver in to charge.Diabetes plus moving totally equals fun.  :p
Posted by Kerri Morrone Sparling on September 2, 2010 10:21 AM