Yes, I know that having type 1 diabetes is a condition that requires attention and that has consequences if not well controlled. However, some moments you just have to sit back and laugh out loud (LOL)!
So these are some of my LOL moments:
- When I was still at university and it was time to test & give an injection, I would do so without thinking. However, later I was told and saw the look of HORROR on some of the faces of my friends around me who didn't know I had diabetes. Their looks were classic, especially when I lifted a bit of my top up to inject! LOL
- When I went to Malaysia and my pump set off the detector, they asked if I had a phone and then I lifted up my dress to show them my pump instead. Yes, I was wearing a tights underneath but they got so embarrassed that they sent me behind a curtain to a woman LOL
- At work when my pump beeps for low or high glucose readings I just lift up my dress to check, however the guys around me start to think I'm working at Teasers LOL
- In all of the above cases I wear either a pair of tights or a petticoat but my friend jokes that one day I will forget to put this on and they will have a show LOL I think it's just wishful thinking on his part :)
- I received a silver award in the Learning and Growth category at work at the very lavish function. Even though I put my sensor alerts off it still starting sounding like an ambulance when I had to go up on stage mainly due to my blood sugar dropping below 3. Luckily this noise was blocked out by the sound of the clapping and I didn't have to lift my dress up as I wore a skirt and top LOL
- My colleague teased me that for graduation night (when I received my M.Com) I would go up on stage and then would have to lift my dress up to take care of my pump. Actually that would have happened as I gave insulin without realising that every time I would put something to my mouth to eat someone would call me. So I checked my pump before going up on stage, switched off my basal so that I would not beep and spared myself the embarrassing moment of telling hundreds of people why I was lifting my dress up and didn't get this moment captured on capture or video LOL
So while having this condition is not really funny, you have to appreciate the funny moments for what they are. It stops you from going completely INSANE! LOL
