# Combined years?
**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532
**Category:** Share
**Created:** [April 18, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532 "2017-04-18T03:16:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/1 "2017-04-18T03:16:21Z")
A while ago I was trying to get some information about a new BG meter, and had a few issues getting straight answers from the company. Their rep assured me how great their company was, and as a selling point told me, “_We have almost 100 combined years of diabetes among our staff_”.
I laughed really hard at that. Me and just about any 2 other people have almost 100 combined years!
It got me to thinking, what are the combined years here? When we get to over 500 years amongst our members, Michel promised to buy a few rounds of beer for everyone. (I may have made up that last part…)
Let’s add them up.
I’ll start. I have 45 years.
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### Author:  [@britt\_j](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/britt_j)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 3:20am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/2 "2017-04-18T03:20:05Z")
12 is coming up soon for me.
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/3 "2017-04-18T03:24:05Z")
> [@Eric](#):
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> Michel promised to buy a few rounds of beer for everyone. (I may have made up that last part…)
I’ll buy the beer! We have almost one. That’s a total of 58 so far!
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### Author:  [@Irish](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Irish)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 3:51am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/4 "2017-04-18T03:51:09Z")
Nearly one here!
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### Author:  [@ClaudnDaye](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/ClaudnDaye)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/5 "2017-04-18T03:55:06Z")
Just passed our 1 year mark. Not much help. Sorry!!
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/6 "2017-04-18T03:58:02Z")
> [@ClaudnDaye](#):
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> Not much help. Sorry!!
No problem. No matter the contribution, you still get the beer. 🍺
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### Author:  [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 4:56am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/7 "2017-04-18T04:56:13Z")
We are 1.5 years here. I will buy the second round!
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### Author:  [@Millz](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Millz)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 7:42am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/8 "2017-04-18T07:42:06Z")
2 for me
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### Author:  [@mikep](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/mikep)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/9 "2017-04-18T13:23:23Z")
22 for me.
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### Author:  [@docslotnick](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/docslotnick)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/10 "2017-04-18T13:23:46Z")
Coming up on 46 in a couple days. Just feels like yesterday. Where does the time go?
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/11 "2017-04-18T14:41:00Z")
Dang! Doc you got me on seniority by 10 months. And no matter how hard I try, I can never catch you. 😃
If just the two of us start a BG meter company, we can say “_We have almost 100 combined years of diabetes among our staff_”.
😂
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/12 "2017-04-18T14:47:22Z")
We are up to 132 combined years so far 🙂
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### Author:  [@docslotnick](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/docslotnick)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/13 "2017-04-18T14:50:20Z")
Let’s do it! So in 50 years we’ll be able to say _“we have almost 200 combined years of diabetes among our staff”_
😉
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### Author:  [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/14 "2017-04-18T14:52:40Z")
Interestingly my graduate school lab created the technology for the freestyle meter and we had 0 years of combined diabetes experience. Not sure if that makes a difference, but I am sure it would be better with you two helping.
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### Author:  [@MikeB23](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/MikeB23)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/15 "2017-04-18T15:07:30Z")
33
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### Author:  [@Bradford](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Bradford)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/16 "2017-04-18T15:34:15Z")
3 years here.
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### Author:  [@Sam](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Sam)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/17 "2017-04-18T20:57:12Z")
5 years… I’m a greenhorn
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### Author:  [@Sam](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Sam)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2017, 5:20am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/18 "2017-04-23T05:20:58Z")
How many years combined have we been banned?
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### Author:  [@DuckFiabetes](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/DuckFiabetes)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/19 "2017-05-10T21:25:03Z")
34 years…beer please! One for each year. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/20 "2017-05-10T21:31:08Z")
Not bad we are 207! and counting
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