{"id":262,"date":"2010-06-10T15:35:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T15:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buckroth.wordpress.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2010-06-10T15:35:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T15:35:59","slug":"clinitest-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Clinitest Tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"

OMG!\u00a0 Clinitest\u00a0Tablets!\u00a0 Who remembers these, raise your hands?!\u00a0 Writer\/Author Kelly Rawlings\u00a0flashed me\u00a0wa-aa-ay back to my past, to my childhood, when I had<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0to use this product to test the glucose amount in my urine.\u00a0 Yuck! That was all we diabetics had back in the day!<\/p>\n

By prescription, these highly poisonous tablets were in a dark-colored glass bottle.\u00a0 Heck, if my memory serves me right,<\/em>\u00a0there could have been twenty-five tablets in\u00a0any particular bottle.\u00a0\u00a0 I would handle these things every day, at least four times a day, for glucose testing in order to\u00a0regulate my daily insulin injection amounts.\u00a0 Such a tablet was the size of a modern day\u00a0daily supplement; either dark blue or dark gray in color, they had white speckles on them.\u00a0 The overpowering, nasty smell alone caused me to hate them, caused me to hate that testing procedure!\u00a0 More often than not, my mother had to yell at me to get it done, especially since she was the ‘insulin drawer.’\u00a0 After reading Ms. Rawlings’ twitter, that old smell, from thirty-five years ago, came wafting to my olfactory memory membranes once again.\u00a0 Yuck.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To further enlighten your senses, let me share an excerpt from my book, page 15:<\/p>\n

\u00a0“Returning to the topic of my initial\u00a0care when first diagnosed [with diabetes] in 1959, I had to continue to use a “potty seat.”\u00a0 In fact, I continued to have to use a variety of potty seats until I was 15 years old.\u00a0 Who knew?\u00a0 This was the easiest way to collect urine for absolute and necessary testing for glucose four times a day.\u00a0 However, due to school hours, it was done twice a day.<\/p>\n

“Using what is known as a \u201cClinitest kit\u201d that was stored in the bathroom medicine cabinet, it smelled funny \u2013 horribly bad – and distinctive. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Five drops of urine with ten drops of water in a glass tube [vial]; drop in a [Clinitest]\u00a0tablet and watch it fizz, fizz, fizz as it turned colors: colors from bright blue, timid green, bright yellow or burning orange were displayed. Either of these colors indicated the level of glucose \u2013 sugar \u2013 in my bloodstream albeit through my urine. Yellow and orange gave the impression that the glucose level was high; whereas, green and blue were good, implying that the glucose level was low. The process was scary to see as a child and I certainly never ever wanted to touch one, afraid it would burn me.<\/p>\n

“Yes, quite odd, albeit historic, compared to the machination processes of today. In my mind, yellow and orange signified \u201cbad\u201d colors. This meant I did something wrong. Maybe I ate too much. Or maybe I ate something I wasn\u2019t supposed to eat. Those colors told me something was wrong with my body, my diabetes. Did I have an infection? Was my body giving me a signal for something? Fear. Fear introduced itself to me before I even knew what fear was.\u00a0”<\/p>\n

“Ironically, … the colors yellow and orange are my favorite colors to this day.\u00a0 This type of testing, … would continue for many years to come.”<\/p>\n

I realize now that yellow and orange are my favorite colors because I refuse to give in to negativity.\u00a0 It just as simple as that.\u00a0 Thank you, Ms. Rawlings, for reminding me.<\/p>\n

A. K. Buckroth, “My Diabetic Soul – An Autobiography,” 2010,\u00a0www.mydiabeticsoul.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OMG!\u00a0 Clinitest\u00a0Tablets!\u00a0 Who remembers these, raise your hands?!\u00a0 Writer\/Author Kelly Rawlings\u00a0flashed me\u00a0wa-aa-ay back to my past, to my childhood, when I had \u00a0to use this product to test the glucose amount in my urine.\u00a0 Yuck! That was all we diabetics … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}