{"id":20432,"date":"2011-10-05T09:28:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T13:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=20432"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:47:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:47:24","slug":"diabetes-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=20432","title":{"rendered":"Diabetes Trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sometimes the strangest things make me happy. Yesterday while walking the dog I passed by an overflowing paper recycling bin. I\u00a0wouldn&#8217;t\u00a0normally notice such a thing, but something caught my eye.\u00a0 Sticking out of the top of the bin was a Medtronic quick-set box (a 10 pack), just the kind I use. I don\u2019t think I could explain this to a non diabetic, but seeing the box made me smile and feel a little happy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Diabetic-Trash.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20440 aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"Diabetic Trash\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Diabetic-Trash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"421\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It wasn&#8217;t the first time I&#8217;ve seen diabetic garbage on the street, but usually all I see is a used test strip or two. The truth is that I see them all the time. Just this morning I saw one near my building \u2013 a blue one. There is a spot on my street, in front of one of the buildings, that always has a few old test strips strewn around it (freestyle but without the butterfly).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/TestStrip-on-Pavement.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20441 lazyload\" title=\"TestStrip on Pavement\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/TestStrip-on-Pavement.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019ve also seen test strips in the park where I run, mostly around the water fountains. I used to assume they were all mine.\u00a0 (I don\u2019t litter on purpose, I promise! But I know test strips sometimes fall out of my pouch.\u00a0 After 20 miles of running, if I do see one fall I don\u2019t always stop to look for it.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve realized, though, there is no way all of the water-fountain-test-strips could be mine.\u00a0 I&#8217;m just not that sloppy.\u00a0 So, while I can&#8217;t condone litter in the park, I want to say: whoever you are out there checking your blood sugar in the same place I do, it makes me happy to know that I\u2019m not alone in checking my blood sugar in the park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the risk of sounding like Oscar the grouch I will say the (diabetic) trash makes me happy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z1SiSUrvUnk[\/youtube]\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Note: Pictures taken with iphone \u2013 how did we survive before we had a camera with us at all time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":53098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Diabetes Trash<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There is a spot on my street, in front of one of the buildings, that always has a few old test strips 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