saturday morning hospital drama.

i know i've been posting rather infrequently, but don't you worry. i am still very much alive and kickin', thank you very much.

okay so this fine saturday noon, i'm going to write about my harrowing experience at the hospital this morning.

my endo ordered me to go for a blood test. it's called the "risk assessments" if i'm not wrong and basically they take my blood to test cholesterol levels, liver function and bla bla bla. drawing blood from me is not a problem. i think i am pretty much immune to needles now. and anyway we diabetics are terribly unafraid of blood...so i reckon.

what sucks is having to pee into those little vials.

because no matter how much water i drank, i just could. not. pee.

it's really harrowing to walk in and out of toilets for an hour. but anyway in the end i got some pee out of my body and the lovely, friendly nurse said it was enough. :)

and that's not the end of my story!

i had to fast from 10pm last night, so basically no food in my system despite waking up at a nice 4.0mmol (72mg/dL). and so after an hour of walking around trying to mentally induce myself into well, answering nature's call, i started to get dizzy and hungry.

and we all know too well what dizzy and hungry at the same time probably means.

to make matters worse, i'd forgotten to bring my good friend, the onetouch meter out with me. so after surrendering my liquid waste to the nurse, i decided i had to go grab a drink. i opted for milo, which is my favourite quick fix to a dropping blood sugar (normally in the morning when i don't have much appetite or after a workout if i know i don't want to eat).

10 minutes later i felt so much better and proceeded to catch a bus home.

hospital drama. all part and parcel of this diabetic's life. ;)