Comments on: Diabetes and the TSA

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:42:57 +0000

I just change my lancet everytime I change the clock: SPring ahead, Fall back.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:50:19 +0000

If you look at the alignment of the hand in the picture, it’s doubtful it could be the hand of the screener. It’s probably supposed to be someone’s hand who is facing the screener, holding it up for him to examine.

By: James

James — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:46:42 +0000

Ciarin you’re right – thanks for the correction.

By: Ciarin

Ciarin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:30:32 +0000

“When I pass through the xray I usually just keep my pump in my pocket…”

BTW, you didn’t go through the xray(that’s the big machine your stuff goes through). You walked through the metal detector.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:07:21 +0000

Ditto on the same lancet. I think I’ve been using the same one for at least three months. Icky, but as you say: efficient!

By: James

James — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:37:55 +0000

Hey that was too easy. You win a round of shots at the next Denver bloggers meet up. – which would be the inaugural one for me.

Yeah he should be holding it from the SIDE, or at least be using that blue glove I’ve seen.

For giving yourself a shot the correct procedure is to sterile the vial tip and your skin with a small alcohol swab, but I don’t know one diabetic who actually does that. Once you get used to 3-5 shots a day sterility becomes second to efficiency. Just like we use the same lancet to prick our finger until it gets dull as a rusty nail.

I still like these photos, but also unless he knows what insulin smells like (a mediciny band-aid,) how would he even know what he’s so studiously looking at?

Cheers and Happy Thanksgiving…

By: Kitt

Kitt — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:11:55 +0000

Well, I wouldn’t want someone else’s grubby fingers all over the top of a bottle I had plans to stick a syringe through.

When my apple peeler-corer-slicer went through screening, I thought for sure it would trigger a bag check. But the first screener (female) named it out loud, and the second never even asked.