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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Real Life
Tags: diet soda fish restaurant
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"I'll have the catfish plate and a small soda please." The corner Mediterranean grocery/restaurant, Vine Ripe Market, always has great food. From gyro and skewered chicken to trout, tilapia, catfish, salmon, shrimp, lamb,all the yummy stuff you can't find at the local burger house.
The bubbly girl at the counter asks, "What kind of drink would you like?" I tell her I will have a diet soda. "Really!?" was the following shocked statement from her lips.
I guess she was expecting the usual call for Pepsi or some other flavored soda. I didn't know what to say. The possibility of explaining about my diabetes flashed into my head, or if I should just play it off as normal. It was a simple interaction, but it weighted on me for several minutes after. Did I react the right way? Should I have explained to her why I chose diet? Was it any of her business? Maybe next time I'll just roll with it and make light of my love for sugar-free drinks. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: aiding others general public hyperglycemia
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I had another interesting experience today. I was in a restaurant and an older woman sitting at a table near me began to get sick. She was vomiting a little and the people she was with, her son and her friend weren't exactly sure what was happening. Her waitress and the restaurant manager were obviously and understandably a little nervous. Other people began to talk and wonder what was going on and then finally I heard those famous words again, "I'm diabetic". So I went over to her and I introduced myself, eerily similar to my "diabetic angel" experience. I asked her what was going and told her that I was also diabetic. She told me she had been having some high sugars and she hadn't been feeling well. She said her blood sugar was in the 400's earlier and she had just taken 6 units to get it down.
This little lady was so sweet.
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Categories: Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: hiding insulin
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I don't think I've ever hidden my diabetes from anyone in my life. In fact, shortly after I got the call that I was pre-diabetic I was standing in my boss's office telling her.
I've never hidden it in public, either. When I was pregnant with No. 3, a friend of mine and I went to a restaurant for lunch. We were at a restaurant/bar type of place and sitting pretty much in the back. I think there was another table of people around us, but, frankly, they weren't paying attention to us. And why should they? We ordered, I checked my sugar and then prepared to shoot up. Now, this was several years ago, but I distinctly remember her saying, "Are you going to just do that here?"
With the pen needle cap in the corner of my mouth and the skin on my right love handle pinched, I said, "Yea-uh. It's not like anyone can see me." I would have done it right there even if someone was watching. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: carb counting at restaurants
Views: 1783
Charlie turns 7 tomorrow. Can you believe it? 7!
"So where do you want to go out to eat for your birthday?" I asked him last night.
"Surprise me," he answered.
"But make sure it's a place where all the waiters sing Happy Birthday to me," he added.
It's funny that he wants that. That sort of public revelry would be hell on Earth for Susanne or me if we were the intended target.
He looked puzzled.
"But how will they know it's my birthday? Do all of the restaurants have a big list of all the kids' birthdays?"
"No," I said. "The restaurants don't have Santa-type power. Mom or dad will tell the waiter or waitress that it's your birthday."
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: blind bolusing guilt perfectionism
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Relationships Real Life
Tags: diabetes introductions new relationships
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The problem with living with diabetes 24/7 is that you forget the details of the disease. It becomes like breathing or eating. You only remember the major moments...the great food you enjoyed or the time you got pulled under by a wave and struggled for the surface and air.
And that's exactly how diabetes is for me. After sixteen plus years of this disease, I can't remember the finger pricks or the insulin shots or any of the in between. It just zooms past my memory because I don't find a need to remember these minute issues (and my brain would constantly be on overload if I tried to remember 6+ finger pricks a day for the past sixteen years).
But today, I'm finding the need to remember these issues. Since I'm back on MDI's for the time being, I've been submerged into the life of insulin injections and many more finger checks. The ups and downs of diabetes are now important. The details are important.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
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Peddler's Village in Lahaska, Pennsylvania, has 42 acres of quaint specialty shops, restaurants and country landscape with a small town Colonial charm. It has strawberry festivals in the Spring and a scarecrow competition in the Fall.
On Sunday, it had two diabetics crashing simultaneously on the stone steps between Hats Galore & More and Skin 'n Tonic Day Spa.
If combined, their blood sugar would have been a perfect 108. But separately, my father and Charlie were in bad shape and spiraling rapidly downward.
Note to self : People with diabetes should eat.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: chinese food food boluses night lows success
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Considering the many battles that I fight with diabetes on any given day, I'm always pleased when things work out. I love success, in any shape or form. But especially in my diabetes world.
So Saturday night while I was visiting my dad, aunt and uncle, we decided to get Chinese food from a local restaurant (the best Chinese in all of Texas, I promise). I was definitely excited, but also silently stressing about how many carbs might be in my meal. Restaurant food is always hard to judge, but especially when it's something like Chinese at a small town joint that doesn't have carb counts available.
As I ordered my meal, I began to mentally guess the carbs. I'd splurged with my favorite: Sweet and Sour Chicken. It came with an eggroll and steamed rice. I was starting out my meal at 140, so whatever the carb count I'd need to add an extra unit to buffer the out of range blood sugar.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Real Life
Tags: eating out new food choices
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Thursday, my college youth group is having a Fourth of July picnic. I'm half excited, but half wary of all things food related. The diabetic in me is curious, anxious, and completely nervous about what will be served, how it was prepared, and so on. The diabetic in me is wanting to be a total control freak...but unfortunately, this isn't a situation where I can be. This situation calls for a little gambling and adventure-taking.
Ever since I started venturing out on my own, I've struggled with food. I want healthy choices. I want choices that won't send my blood sugar through the roof. And mostly, I want choices that I will actually eat (as I'm a fairly picky eater). All those things combined leaves me feeling like I have to make the restaurant choice or at least give plenty of acceptable options...while trying to make everyone happy in what they're putting in their own mouths.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Children Food Highs & Lows In the News Fitness Real Life
Tags: bicycling children with diabetes competition holidays hot weather team type 1 Tour de Cure
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If you have only one day to see the Tour of Somerville, Monday's the one to aim for. The Borough of Somerville puts on a day-long festival that starts with a Memorial Day parade before proceeding to a family fun-ride and the day's races. Vendors of cycling gear, healthy-lifestyles, and other stuff are set up on the lawn in front of City Hall; club team tents are lined up on the lawn along the side street; and the whole area is punctuated with local fraternal organizations selling burgers, hot dogs, and other "hand" foods while spectators line the barriers along the route. It's also the day Team Type 1 - sanofi-aventis plays "meet the public" in a big way, signing posters and team cards under the Sanofi tent as well as racing in three or more of the day's criteriums.
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