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So Friday night I had a bit of a moan about being T1D to the wife - she's been with me for all my 20years since diagnosis so she does 'get it'.........just! But when she cooks and she's dishing up and I'm preparing to do my jab I'd ask how many carbs have I got.....usual answer is 'I don't know' yet she knows I have to count carbs - obviously when I cook I'm spot on every time 
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The up shot was I challenged her to pretend she's diabetic for a week, working with my blood test results, my ratios but what ever she was eating. Most times she's got the insulin dosages about right more by luck than anything but so far she's had 2 severe hypos, probably one 20+ high oh and also given up. (if only I had that option!)
What did tip her over the precipice was going out last night to a Chinese restaurant!
But when she cooked a spag bol Monday evening, she weighed everything, looked it up in the 'bible', knew exactly how many carbs we both had, had even decided to split her 'dose' because of the fat and pasta but promptly forgot the rest of her dose later, I decided after talking through the ins and outs of things to do my whole dose but after I had eaten (I usually split dose with varying results) and that worked well so was worth discussing this while our supper was getting cold - I made sure she got the full experiance
She did completely **** up one breakfast, we're still not sure how she came up with a too high a carb figure even with weighing her honey nut cornflakes, and then used the wrong ratio - that would have been an ambulance jobby mid to late morning LOL.
She even started to read my copy of think like a pancreas!
I think she 'gets it' just a little bit more now.
!The up shot was I challenged her to pretend she's diabetic for a week, working with my blood test results, my ratios but what ever she was eating. Most times she's got the insulin dosages about right more by luck than anything but so far she's had 2 severe hypos, probably one 20+ high oh and also given up. (if only I had that option!)
What did tip her over the precipice was going out last night to a Chinese restaurant!
But when she cooked a spag bol Monday evening, she weighed everything, looked it up in the 'bible', knew exactly how many carbs we both had, had even decided to split her 'dose' because of the fat and pasta but promptly forgot the rest of her dose later, I decided after talking through the ins and outs of things to do my whole dose but after I had eaten (I usually split dose with varying results) and that worked well so was worth discussing this while our supper was getting cold - I made sure she got the full experiance
She did completely **** up one breakfast, we're still not sure how she came up with a too high a carb figure even with weighing her honey nut cornflakes, and then used the wrong ratio - that would have been an ambulance jobby mid to late morning LOL.
She even started to read my copy of think like a pancreas!
I think she 'gets it' just a little bit more now.
