I do wish though I could eat fruit
Sue, you're T1, so you have considerably more latitude in food choices than T2s, and that includes fruit.
I can understand completely why T2s adopt lchf and avoid fruit, but T1 biology is fundamentally different. There is no reason at all why T1s can't eat moderate amounts of fruit.
With T1, it needn't be a case of avoiding or minimising carbs (although that is a viable option for those who choose it).
It's more a case of managing absorption of carbs over time. That involves matching insulin time patterns with carb absorption rates.
That's a fancy way of saying learning how to figure out how to mix and match the interplay between simple and complex carbs and fats and protein in relationship to insulin amounts and timing.
If you go down the Bernstein route of, "no fruit except avocados", fine, that's your choice.
But if you're already expressing regret about not eating fruit so early in your T1 life, it seems to me that you're needlesly denying yourself something you want.
I'm not a low carber. I pay attention to what I eat, I think about the timing, the combinations, and I'm not slow to do a post-prandial correction if I think it's needed.
That way, I'll regularly scoof down some figs, cherries, melon, kiwi fruit, mango, raspberries, strawberries etc. after a meal as desert.
These don't send me on a savage spike, for the simple reason that the absorption of the simpler carbs in the fruit has been buffered by coming at the end of the meal.
I pay no attention at all to material about how fructose is only processed in the liver. That is of no relevance to T1.
I pay no attention to the meme that carbohydrates are not needed to survive. I prefer the view that fruit has undeniable nutrional value in terms of vitamins, minerals and fibre, and the plain fact that it's just pretty darned tasty to eat, so adds to my enjoyment of life.
I can understand why T2s avoid fruit. If you as a T1 want to eat fruit, there's no reason at all why you shouldn't.