Dumb Ninja - Day 3
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 11:12AM It's Day 3 and this one is kind of embarrassing.
Diabetes bloopers - Wednesday 5/11: Whether you or your loved one are newly diagnosed or have been dealing with diabetes for a while, you probably realize that things can (and will) go wrong. But sometimes the things that go wrong aren’t stressful - instead sometimes they are downright funny! Go ahead and share your Diabetes Blooper - your “I can’t believe I did that" moment - your big “D-oh” - and let’s all have a good laugh together!!
Even after years of doing them, I hate finger pricks for blood glucose tests. It just hurts. Granted I love my Multiclix and think it the best lancing device out there but it still hurts.
I mention that because this blooper is from long ago when I used one of those other lancing devices.
Now I always start at the lowest setting just because I don’t want it to hurt.
I pressed the button. I felt the hit and heard the loud clack of the plunger and quickly squeezed my finger hoping for enough blood but had nothing.
The dial was turned to the next setting to allow the lancet to go a littler deeper.
My eyes were closed and I pressed the lancing device to my finger. CLACK. Nothing.
Again I turned the dial, this time skipping one of the numbers in hopes to get this over with.
Eyes closed, button pressed, CLACK. Nada.
UGH! I tried several times slowly turning the device freaking out that I may go too far and I stick the whole thing through my finger!
Tried it all again and still had no blood. My finger hurt from all the squeezing!
So I did the unthinkable. I turned the dial all the way to 9 and went for it.
My whole body was tense! It was awful. I pressed the button with bated breath and WHAMO! Zilch.
That was when I decided to take off the cover and saw that there was no lancet in the dang thing.
DUH!
Laughing at what a moron I was I stuck a lancet in the device, made sure my strip was ready to go again, and pressed it on my finger.
BAM!
OUCH!! #%$&!!
I didn’t turn the dial back down.
Reader Comments (16)
Oh man!!! I swear I FELT it when I read that....OUCH! Great post!
Painful. (but it does help to get it over and done with, I hate pricking twice)
Ahh, just reading your post makes my fingers hurt! I bet you always double check the setting now. :)
Ouch. I flinched as I read your post. Poor finger. I hope you gave it a month off to recover! :)
Oh man, I can't tell you how many times I've done that very thing. Mentioned something similar in my blog post for today. :-)
George, I totally knew where this was going, because I have done this myself, albeit not to myself. I'm so sorry about the end ouchie though - yikes!
I knew it before you said it... OUCH!!!
Oh, I'm only giggling a little because I've done the exact same thing. Yowch!
Ouch! I've done that. Sometimes I think my meter case adjusts my finger pricker without my knowing it. Always a surprise with diabetes!
You know, as I reading this I was whisked away to an earlier time. One where I would be watching the beautiful damsel in your average slasher horror flick about to walk in to the dark basement... I was all like "Don't do it!"
So yea...
I've done that before! Your reaction to having to poke your finger makes me feel better that I cannot insert my own infusion sets to save my life! And I'll say it's a good thing you're not a mother because every single time I was in the maternity ward after giving birth the nurses could never figure out the glucometers and the lancing devices. They would either poke me so hard all she had to do was squeeze the finger the next time for more blood, or they would poke me with a straight lancet. Holy that hurt!
But this lancet goes to 11. It's 2 deeper. Sorry. I'm a dork.
About 6 months ago, my daughter was exclaiming "ouch!" when it poked her finger. She'd never done it before, and I thought she was just being dramatic. Come to find out I have the multiclix cranked to 5. We usually need 1.
Bad Mom.
btw, I can't add you to my blog list. For some reason when I enter your url, it tacks a /home on the end and when I click on it it gives me the ol' "oops, this page appears to be broken". Got my web savvy husband to take a (quick) look at it and couldn't figure it out either. Any ideas what the deal is?
These blooper posts are totally making me giggle. :D
Ouch! That totally hurt my heart!
Yes, I could feel my own fingers tingling just reading your account here George! Of course, I've done this too. And even better are those times that are immediately followed by a gusher that stains a white shirt. Classic moments of WTFructose, indeed!
Dang man! Your finger must have bled FOREVER after punching a brand new lancet in at full power!