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Type 1: Would you trust your OH whole heartidly with managing your Diabetes for a day?


Yes, I knew when posting it was T1 forum but never assumed, I wanted to say as I have to be very careful and the wife bless her, still gets it wrong despite her low carbing as well.
My post was intended to be humorous, and I apologise if I have put my nose in the wrong place!
 

Nosher, I have a teenager ..........
You haven't post your nose in the wrong place nosher, take care
 

My best friend is a T1 and so are two of her sons.
 
I agree this is a great topic so please let's keep it on the topic.

Personally I wouldn't risk my other half having this for one hour never mind one day, he seems to forget I have type 1 sometimes as I try to keep it well hidden. Thinking through everything I do on a daily basis this is some mean feat though, as type 1 does rule my life, from the first test on waking through to the last one at night, he only sees me probably do one test a day if that, however I have caught him telling someone once how well I manage so i think he has a pretty good idea what a challenge it is to live with this on a day to day basis..
 
Some posts in this thread have been deleted. Please stop the bickering and rudeness, and, as @Juicyj has said, stay on the topic of whether you'd let your partner manage your Type 1.

My answer is No. Not because my partner doesn't know a lot about diabetes, but because a whole unpredictable day might be too much with all the different variables. I also don't think he'd want the responsibility!
 
qe5rt said:
My wife is a nurse so yes, add a "nurse" outfit and it's a hell yes.
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My missus is a nurse, and whilst she may be professional in her day job, she falls to pieces if she has to do anything for me. From speaking to other medical people, I gather it's not uncommon.

And when it comes to carbs and cals, she hasn't got a clue, bless her. So even with the nurses uniform, I'd have to say, probably not.
 
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bless her -- my OH will ask if i want a piece of pork pie -- while I am in the depths of a 2.2 and grasping for the orange juice or the lucozade
 
himtoo said:
bless her -- my OH will ask if i want a piece of pork pie -- while I am in the depths of a 2.2 and grasping for the orange juice or the lucozade
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Be rude to say 'no' though, wouldn't it.
 
serenity648 said:
whoops! i was trying to be funny (hence the smiley) and didnt realise type 2's cant post in type 1 forums. sorry for any offense.
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I got yer joke..!
Though, I feel chucking a person in at the deep end of "someone else's world" is more a matter of a confidence issue..?

Just to add. I am adept at using a washing machine.. Been doing so since I was 11 years old? (It realy is no "dark feminine witchcraft".) I'm not bad at repairing em either..
 
mahola said:
If my partner had diabetes himself he'd be dead within 6 months. He lives on sweets, biscuits, crisps etc etc. And he's never been overweight in his life.
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Actually, I doubt he would expire, because then he would "get it".

Apologies for responding to Mahola's post, whilst aligning it to another thread, but this is in support of her other thread.

(I'll do some lines later, if that helps? )
 
OH is no idiot, CRAZY but no idiot.

If there is a pork pie going I'll have one
 
What an interesting question...

I feel like I should say YES, however....
If she was just to pick it up by herself right now with no information, she'd be too scared she'd get it wrong. Not so much the food stuff, she knows all that, but the actual basal/bolus quantities would be unknown to her (I might tell her, just in case).
She doesn't like needles that much either, so having to do all the finger pricks and injections would mean that it would be the longest 24 hours ever!
 
I don't trust my consultant, the dietitian or my DN. I would be eating hclf and my hba1c would be a lot higher along with hypos. They are nice people, they just look bemused when I tell them thanks for the advice but no thanks.
I would trust my OH but I would never put him in that situation. Ever.
On Facebook on the cgm nightscout pages people have their blood sugar readings downloading to their partners phones so they can see them when they are apart.
I would never do that because this is mine to deal with and I want a partner not a carer.
 
That's a high risk approach. I wouldn't hand my control over to a nurse let alone the ex-other half, certainly not as an adult.

If my son ever gets diagnosed with type 1 then both of us have a duty of care to him, but he's 3 so we'd have to control it for him if it ever happened.

On another note, it would be irresponsible to give control of your diabetes to someone else. Unless your incapacitated or in hospital, but even then it's temporary until you get you marbles back.

Ok, an analogy. You wouldn't give your car to someone to drive without them taking a test and have a licence. The same goes for diabetes, all these other people who don't have diabetes don't have that drivers licence, they're all illegal lol
 
Got my license from the DBLA
 
luv him to bits but a big fat no (soz babe) xx just as scary he'd prolly get it more right than me (just coz its different doesn't make it wrong). sometimes I do wish I could hand over a hypo, not that id ever wish anyone else diabetic, but just for a few minutes feel what this is really like.
 
I would 100% trust my OH if he ever needed to 'take over' for a day.

I have alarms set for Lantus, including amounts & know the alarm does his head in so he couldn't forget.

Had to change cartridge in pen the other day & before I could even get to the fridge, he had changed it for me (shocked wasnt the word) lol.

Glad to see he does listen sometimes
 
Bless my OH - we were best friends for four years during college and both moved back to our respective families and then got fed up with that before moving in together as friends - started dating a month after cohabitating.

Back to the point - Five years ago I told my roommates (one of which was his GF at the time, which is how we met, heh) that I was diabetic and some signs to look for if I needed help, etc. he took a sticky note and wrote down all the ranges of different BS rates and what to do if/when they happen, grabbed both my parents phone numbers so he could contact them and promised me he wouldn't let anything happen to me. He still has that sticky note today, and since we started dating he has done a complete pump change on me from start to finish without me saying a peep.

As some of the comments have said, I would have a harder time trusting if I was still on injections and he had to do the math himself and figure everything out, but I might take a venture and get him to take control one day without using the ratios on the pump to see how well he does (because for those who haven't seen my other posts, my personal control can't be much worse at this point, but obviously I wouldn't let him do anything to put me in some serious troubles).

This is a great idea for a post - thank you for suggesting!
 
Well, things could be changing for me, so maybe, one day, I might say .............. yes ?
 

I totally agree - sometimes it would be nice for someone else to not judge you when you explain how you feel because they don't understand. I get that from coworkers when I leave because my sugars are too high for too long - they look at me like I am a kid trying to fake the flu to get out of work because they can't see the effect it's having on my body.
 
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