scol22

Since it is April Fools Day I am going to share a coupled of my favorite moments messing with people while using diabetes to my advantage.

The first story is about Dave. One of my best friends in the world, Dave is my son's Godfather and a very close friend to the rest of my family. Dave and I were roommates long ago and even though he knew I was a type 1, he would always turn his back on me when I was taking my shot.

Dave hates needles. It turns out most people with diabetes do too but we do not have much of a choice in the matter. Anyhow, I would always tell him, "C'mon man. It's no biggie." But he would freak out and never ever look my way.

One day I decided to get him good. We were just about to run to the corner to grab a bite to eat and I said, "hang on man I need to take a shot." He turned around, I lifted my shirt and stuck the needle into my stomach. After I pushed the plunger in I said, "Alright dude." When he turned around I held my shirt up high and shouted, "TAKE IT OUT DUDE. TAKE IT OUT!" all the while the syringe was sticking out of my stomach. Dave shrieked like a school girl, turned around with both hands covering his head, and crouched down on the floor.

After catching my breath from laughing so hard I apologized but it was a good one.

The second prank comes from my wife's Aunt. It was one of the first times I was having dinner at their house and of course, her whole family knew that I was diabetic. I was in the kitchen with her while she was cooking just keeping her company. When dinner was almost ready I told her I needed to take my shot. She had been asking me all about diabetes earlier so she was interested in my regimen.

"Where do you take it?" she asked.

I held the needle up to my face, took my glasses off, pulled down my lower eye lid and said, "I like to take it right under here!" I made a jabbing motion at my eye with the syringe and she screamed. Loudly!

After she stopped hitting me for scaring the heck out of her, we all had a great laugh.

I look at it this way, if we have this stupid disease, we might as well have fun with it now and then!

Have you ever pulled a D-prank? I would love to hear about it!