Diabetes too.

Normal: another day same as usual.  Today we will go to the endocrinologist to learn about a new glucose meter that does not require blood.  If this sounds like Greek to you, you are lucky enough not to have diabetes.  As a caretaker, I must test Dave's sugar level each morning.  This requires a drop of blood on a test strip which is placed in a meter reader.  The new meter will read a patch which is placed on the  top of the arm without any blood.  Hooray. That means less pricking the finger to obtain blood.  It is bad enough that often insulin is required. One could have up to four finger pricks and four needles stuck in their arm, stomach or upper leg.  Not pleasant.  Dave used to give himself the needles but he needs me to do it now.  I got over that awful feeling of entering the skin.  How do nurses and doctors do this all the time?

So this is normal.  The only trouble is finding myself among  the caretaking. I think I will get my nails done today.