{"id":4062,"date":"2003-03-01T03:24:24","date_gmt":"2003-03-01T03:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/ameribag\/"},"modified":"2003-03-01T03:24:24","modified_gmt":"2003-03-01T03:24:24","slug":"ameribag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/ameribag\/","title":{"rendered":"Ameribag"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to AmeriBag, Home of the Healthy Back Bag\u00ae<\/a><\/p>\n

So why am I talking about a bag?<\/p>\n

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Well, if you are on insulin, you need to keep the following with you:<\/p>\n

Your daily dose insulin — as who knows what’s going to happen at the end of the day, and maybe you won’t get home from dinner. I’m on Humalin 75\/25 — Lilly does give you a nice leather case to keep up with stuff with.<\/p>\n

Your sliding scale insulin — I personally am very uncomfortable when my blood sugar is over 150. Thus, I keep my sliding scale insulin with me at all times. This means I also have to carry needles. Unfortunately I haven’t found a nice case for this.<\/p>\n

Your blood sugar monitor. Never change your blood sugar without knowing what it is. If you are on a sliding scale, you need to check your blood sugar to make sure it is going the right direction. You also need to be able know if you are heading for a low. More on this when I talk about exercise.<\/p>\n

Emergency supplies. I keep a couple of tubes of glucose gell which I haven’t had to use, YET, glocuse tablets which I have had to use once, and life savers. I also keep alcohol swabs.<\/p>\n

Spares: Yes, I keep a spare blood sugar monitor with me, just in case. I also keep spare test strips, lancelets, and lancing device in my bag. <\/p>\n

I also keep the labels the mail order pharmacy gives me in the bag, so that emergency medical personnel can figure out what I’m on.<\/p>\n

I carry a distressed nylon large Ameribag. That way I have room for my mini-disk player, mini-disks, palm pilot, wallet, checkbook and my associated “cards”. (Credit, insurance, etc.)<\/p>\n

It’s a lot of stuff to keep track of, but less stressful because my bag is always there now, and I always know what I have in it. <\/p>\n

I ordered mine from Ebags, though I bought my first at the Container Store — they seem to only carry black medium microfiber bags. Yes, I have 4 now! One large navy microfiber bag for more formal days. I love my mocha bag.<\/p>\n

Oh, and there customer service is just fabulous. The brown large broke, and I sent it back to them. One of the velcro fasteners came off, which I was living with, but the final straw was that the plastic strap came off. It no longer balanced properly on my shoulder and “regained it’s weight”. THEY SENT ME A NEW ONE!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t live without my AmeriBag!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-4062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-ameribag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}