Thursday, November 4, 2010

DAM -n- NaBloPoMo Day 4 - Our Diabetes Counter

This is the sideboard in our kitchen/dinnette area, where I keep everything we need for T-Bear's day-to-day D-care. Our "backup" supplies are in the pantry.



So, starting from the left, we've got:
* A mug for holding new syringes. Sort of like a pencil cup, I find it easier to grab one when they're all standing up.
* Our black D-bag which holds everything we need (except for the test kit) when we go anywhere.
* Poking out of the D-bag is the blue Poucho which holds and keeps the insulin cool during the hotter months. It's a pretty clever little gizmo, activated by water so you don't have to carry an ice pack around during the summer.
* Also barely poking out of the D-bag is the rocket (Inject-Ease device) that makes T-Bear's injections a bit less painful.
* Not poking out of the D-bag are alcohol wipes, glucose tablets, spare test strips, and spare lancets.
* T-bear's flame-colored SPIBelt that contains his testing supplies and glucose tablets.
* Log sheets and pen.
* Two vials of insulin in their protective cases (so they won't break when I drop them on the tile floor). Blue is Lantus, pink is Humalog.
*T-Bear's vitamins and supplements, and the fancy little glass we put them in.
* Spare test kit (the SPIBelt is often floating around the house).
* Calculator for adding up carbs and calculating doses.
* Empty milk jug for collecting used sharps.
* Nutrition scale for weighing foods and determining carbs.
So, that's about it. Everything we need to calculate and prep a dose of insulin as quickly and easily as possible. And, it's easy to load up the D-bag with whatever we need when we are heading out the door.
Where do you keep your D-stuff?

3 comments:

  1. My supplies are on a shelf in the linen closet. But the everyday stuff is all in different places. Meter/Pump remote is on the computer desk, glucose tablets and foods to raise low blood sugars in a special bowl in the cupboard right a long with the other food. We don't have a food scale, but I am thinking about getting one.

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  2. Makes our tiny little Med pack (with Epi pen and benedryl) look like nothing to manage! That is alot of equipment for one little soul.

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  3. @ Grace - I don't know if I could be as vigilant every hour of every day as you have to be with your daughter's allergy. My hat goes off to you....

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