Forgetting Things

This weekend, one of the diabetes twitters was upset with her diabetic daughter because the daughter left the house without enough test strips.

I answered,"Been there, done that, 8 years diagnosed, 50 years old”.

I think I helped mom.

We all have lapses when it comes to doing anything, including caring for ourselves. I do keep spare things, but in the last month I’ve left my blood sugar monitor at school (on Friday night), and have more than once, not put enough test strips in my bag.

Hey, I am pretty sure my driver’s license is in my scanner at school right now, and will be running by to pick it up.

So mom’s don’t be so hard on us.  You make mistakes too.  In fact, I recently found out my mother stopped testing (she’s diabetic too – guess where I got it – though I really think mine came from my father’s side).  It was quite satisfying to be justified on jumping on her case.