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Xmas day at my parents house went surprisingly well for me apart from the fact that my parents hid my testing kit as they said to enjoy xmas and to stop worrying about my blood sugar levels, so I did that and it felt good. Xmas dinner involved watching Percy Jackson and eating beef, plenty of carrots, cauliflower and broccoli, potatoes (roasted and mashed), Yorkshire puds, pigs in blankets, gravy and some condiments (mint jelly, apple and cranberry sauce). Then had some pavola as desserts, topped with my xmas gift (broken toblerone pieces) and today indulged in sandwiches, cocktail sausages, pork pies, sausage rolls, slices of chocolate gateau and a lot of beers, which now I feel good and still have lots of party food left.
 
Your choice at the end of the day.
You enjoyed it, so fair enough.
 
big_daddy said:
Xmas day at my parents house went surprisingly well for me apart from the fact that my parents hid my testing kit as they said to enjoy xmas and to stop worrying about my blood sugar levels, so I did that and it felt good. Xmas dinner involved watching Percy Jackson and eating beef, plenty of carrots, cauliflower and broccoli, potatoes (roasted and mashed), Yorkshire puds, pigs in blankets, gravy and some condiments (mint jelly, apple and cranberry sauce). Then had some pavola as desserts, topped with my xmas gift (broken toblerone pieces) and today indulged in sandwiches, cocktail sausages, pork pies, sausage rolls, slices of chocolate gateau and a lot of beers, which now I feel good and still have lots of party food left.
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whats your point?
 
big_daddy said:
Xmas day at my parents house went surprisingly well for me apart from the fact that my parents hid my testing kit as they said to enjoy xmas and to stop worrying about my blood sugar levels, so I did that and it felt good. Xmas dinner involved watching Percy Jackson and eating beef, plenty of carrots, cauliflower and broccoli, potatoes (roasted and mashed), Yorkshire puds, pigs in blankets, gravy and some condiments (mint jelly, apple and cranberry sauce). Then had some pavola as desserts, topped with my xmas gift (broken toblerone pieces) and today indulged in sandwiches, cocktail sausages, pork pies, sausage rolls, slices of chocolate gateau and a lot of beers, which now I feel good and still have lots of party food left.
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Big-Daddy: When you did test, how were the BGs?
Andy: He stepped off the wagon for a bit, and needed to "confess his sins"
 
catherinecherub said:
All this moaning does nobody any good.

Try being a widow/widower and then you will really know what it is like. Nobody to moan about. I wouldn't care if my deceased husband helped or hindered me in my control, I would love for him to be here.. I can't expect my kids to be interested and I never make a big deal of it. Any decent restaurant will always knock up a salad or give you extra veg instead of potatoes, rice etc... and you can always prepare something at home. Eat what you can and leave the rest if there are no options.
Get real, I think the stress of Christmas is getting to you.
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Catherine I think you have exactly the right attitude to it that of course you would still love your husband to be here that you don't make a big deal of it so good for you
 
catherinecherub said:
All this moaning does nobody any good.

Try being a widow/widower and then you will really know what it is like. Nobody to moan about. I wouldn't care if my deceased husband helped or hindered me in my control, I would love for him to be here.. I can't expect my kids to be interested and I never make a big deal of it. Any decent restaurant will always knock up a salad or give you extra veg instead of potatoes, rice etc... and you can always prepare something at home. Eat what you can and leave the rest if there are no options.
Get real, I think the stress of Christmas is getting to you.
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sorry, I disagree. A good moan gets it out of your system.
Sorry about you being a widower Catherine & agree that you would love him back.
 
I'm with the moaners it's nice to get things of our chest without hurting people and people on here have been through the same things my lot are the same love them all but things like treat hypo with insulin And why are you testing your blood again!!oh I didn't know you took insulin!! And you don't need to have any alerts on you the paramedics will test anyway have cake your not allowed cake the list is endless I don't think they realise the whole implications of living every day of up downs
 
douglas99 said:
This is just a moan.

Well, we did the Xmas visiting today.

Running a bit late, so my relatives had decided to go to the pub for lunch, and phoned us to say they were eating, and the restaurant was closing shortly. My wife answered the mobile as I'm driving. Now obviously she knows I'm T2, but once again, it appears to has totally gone over her head. (Completely unsupportive normally to be fair). So she asks me, (low cal, good carbs diet), "they're ordering, do you want them to get you fish and chips, or a steak and ale pie, or a Xmas dinner?"

I have to be honest, I stopped the car, and got out. If she doesn't know I haven't eaten that type of food for two years, I give up.
She honestly had no idea what to tell them to order for me. Her excuse, "I didn't have the menu"
Like I had it then?
She really , really, couldn't tell them what I could/would eat? After two years?

Anyway, we got there too late to order, so we missed lunch.
Talking about type 2, and complications, and future problems from high bs.
But it's obviously me being "awkward" as I hear the conversation later.
Relative - "I know someone, diagnosed type 2 at 60, that was 20 years ago, and he's not on insulin"
My wife nodding away.

So I get home, I've eaten nothing for about 12 hours, checked my bs, 3.2.
Meatballs for tea, and a mince pie, massive overshoot to 15, (within the 2 hours) but back down to 6 now.

Normally I'm ok, maybe it was the lack of food for such a long time, as I normally eat little and often.
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Oh Dear!
an unhelpful spouse is not good.
In some ways the fact that we are both diabetic I T2 and he T1, makes things simpler. In fact I need to keep an eye on him since he has kidney disease too. Try to make menus weekly and get her to help. she may not mean to be unhelpful and just doesn't undersand properly. Helping with menus for a week or 2 MIGHT help her understand.
Hana
 
Thankfully I have a very loving, supportive and understanding wife and diabetes is never an issue in our relationship, however if it were I wouldn't be discussing it on a open forum.and would talk about it together as any couple should do.
 
And there's more I suppose you need to eat again,, bless nothing I say on here hasn't been said to my family already moaned about or laughed about but it is nice to hear from people with similar things happening in their lives and however much we are loved and understood they cannot really appreciate how we feel all the time I hope they never find out we do I take it have anonymity on here but like I said they already know
 
hanadr said:
Oh Dear!
an unhelpful spouse is not good.
In some ways the fact that we are both diabetic I T2 and he T1, makes things simpler. In fact I need to keep an eye on him since he has kidney disease too. Try to make menus weekly and get her to help. she may not mean to be unhelpful and just doesn't undersand properly. Helping with menus for a week or 2 MIGHT help her understand.
Hana
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Bless her, she has bought me " the fast diet recipe book" it's actually a very good 5:2 diet book, with good low carb low cal recipes.
She also admits the kids had to help her choose it though.
I think the only problem is if she ever cooks, she'll never open it. That's the bit it's hard to get my head round.
 
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