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Two weeks agone I was at a Birthday dinner when I realized my see solely had five units left -  I know, full rookie motion on my part!  Speaking of rookie moves, yours genuinely was sans back upwards insulin to boot! 
Since nosotros were at pizza articulation I knew that five units simply wouldn’t do, therefore I excused myself - And assured my friends that all was OK inwards Busted Pancreas Land in addition to that I was simply existence wifty inwards the diabetes department. Then I drove abode to larn a quick refill. Luckily for me I solely lived a mile away therefore it was no big deal... Or therefore I thought.
When I got abode I went conduct for the refrigerator to pick out handgrip of my bottle of opened insulin....except I couldn’t notice it.  I checked on my nightstand in addition to inwards my bath - fifty-fifty on my java tabular array - And the missing bottle wasn’t inwards whatever of those places - It was no where to hold upwards found. 
I had simply scissure opened upwards a novel bottle ix days before in addition to I was pissed off at myself beyond belief! 

That  bottle had solely been opened a niggling over a calendar week in addition to opening a novel bottle meant that I would eventually accept to throw to a greater extent than or less expert insulin 1 means or another. 
I could hold looking m and that's what I did, but later fifteen minutes I caved in addition to opened a novel bottle.
Cut to the side yesteryear side twenty-four threescore minutes current when I constitute my rogue insulin bottle - On my kitchen counter hidden behind a handbag of Starbucks Medium Roast - just where I’d left it. 
So what’s a gal amongst a busted pancreas create inwards this situation?? 
This gal continued to role the former bottle until 3 days agone in addition to therefore started the newer bottle of opened insulin, which according to the thirty twenty-four threescore minutes current out of the refrigerator dominion volition hold upwards toast yesteryear Dec 31st. 

I HATE when crap similar that happens. I abhor wasting expert insulin simply similar I abhor receiving an mistake on my meter in addition to wasting a expert examination - strip - Or having a newly minted infusion site in addition to my tubing/infusion fix larn yanked out yesteryear a doorknob. And I abhor that sometimes, fifty-fifty when nosotros don't desire to, nosotros accept alter our infusion fix amongst 10 units left because we accept to. 

My insurance doesn’t sympathize that “shit happens” when it comes to diabetes. 
That sometimes a perfectly expert opened bottle of insulin tin nail on a tile flooring or larn lost behind the handbag of Starbucks for a few days. 

So has anyone else been forced to waste materials their precious diabetes supplies in addition to felt similar a consummate jackass for having had to? 
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