Kerri Morrone
I did an insulin pump infusion set site change this morning, by the ubiquitous lamp light on the dresser. My fiance (seven weeks until the wedding!) and I were talking about thresholds for pain and how I don't have much tolerance for emotional pain but my threshold for physical pain is high.
"I know. You can stick yourself with needles all day long but you freak out if you see a spider." He grinned at me.
"I know that needles aren't going to try and crawl on my head at night, that's for sure."
Looking at needles like these and inserting them fearlessly on a regular basis - and knowing that we all do some version of this in our diabetes management - makes me wonder if a high pain threshold is a "courtesy gift" that comes with this disease. Do you find yourself tolerating things that other people would get all squishy about, like a flu shot or even something as arbitrary as a stubbed toe?
