Diabetes bag.
It contains the lifeline for diabetes. In as much as those with diabetes would like it smaller, more ‘hide-able’–it has become part of our terminology as much as anything else. It started as the diabetes supply bag; it became your diabetes bag, and after a certain amount of time it became known as just ‘the bag’.
You know; “Do you have the bag?”
“Where’s the bag?”
“Do not forget the bag”.
The bag.
Did you ever think that such a word would become such an important part of your life. Did you ever think that such a word would represent so much that gets taken every where. It does not just get taken ‘out’, it gets taken EVERYWHERE.
Trips, run to the store, a walk around the park, or even skydiving from an airplane—we go nowehere without ‘THE BAG’.
Insulated, supplies, insulin, back-up, alcohol swabs….all are contained in ‘the bag’.
We should think of a really cool name for ‘the bag’; don’t you think? It just seems that something so important deserves a bigger, better, and cooler title, don;t you think? So if you have any ideas, I’m open to them.
I have to go take the kids out to a friends, have a great day as I need to jump in the car and go; but not without THE bag.
I am a diabetes dad.
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9 replies on “The “BAG”!”
My son’s is the kit.
mine is “the survival kit”. I have a simple one that looks like a large wallet from the outside. It’s only when you unzip it that you see all the goodies inside.
The kit. Agree a better name is needed.
We call it the D bag. “Do you have your D bag”?
We call it the “go bag” since we always have it on the go!
We have a Animas Ping so we say Do you have your Ping-a-ling? Which is in the bag!!
Son left his “D Bag” at school. I’ll give him a break, it’s the first day. We walked back to get it and he asked the secretary and his teacher where his “D Bag” is. That’s it’s name, “D Bag”.
and there you go!
Thanks for writing.
DS calls his “the murse” as in “man-purse”. We use a small hard sided camera bag for his stuff.