I think something like that would happen here too, but substitute cat desperate for a pee while your dog’s out for a walk. Not sure the carb counting would be done in time for breakfast 2092.ummmmm.....you've got more chance wining the lottery (even if you don't play it) - we can only dream!
A few years ago this discussion cropped up on the forum about having a T1 holiday, someone taking charge of handling your T1 for a day for you - I wrote a light-hearted post about a scenario of handing control over to my wife - it concluded with me dead and the dog still waiting to go for a walk
Apart from having to spend the whole 24hrs together (I'm breaking into a sweat just thinking about it!) would they be able to cope, do they know enough to keep you safe, or even within target range (!)????
I would think my day would go something like this:
I Wake up: Unable to wake my wife so no BS test, no Basal or Bolus injection for breakfast, no walk for the dog, when she does eventually get up and ready she'd ask me to test, it's high so she'll squeal whilst trying to inject a correction (which she'll either calculate wrong or get the correction ratio wrong), she'll then expect me to 'do something' instead of just sitting on the sofa comatosed. Dog still not walked.
Lunch: She'll work out the exact carbs, do a test, exclaim about the result, calculate my bolus and get the dog to do the actual injection so she doesn't have to. She may do a test at some point later - and force some glucotabs down my throat, even if my BS was 4.something (......as we're going shopping! and no the dog can't come shopping with us - so still no walk)
Dinner: We'll have macaroni cheese for dinner, she'd calculate the carbs in the pasta using the pre-cooked carbs listed on the packet for the weight of my portion of cooked Mac Cheese, by chance she's only given me 10u too much and wonders why I'm incapable of doing the washing up, she does a test and then panics, which could go either of 2 ways, hospital or a whole pot of glucotabs vanish (during this time she's wondering why the dog keeps pestering her - perhaps he can sense my BS is low, she opens a 2nd pot of glucotabs) Also it's all got too much for her and 'wine' makes an appearance.
Bed: She's realized I didn't have my basal this morning so double ups the night time dose, also I didn't have my tablet this morning so that needs to be taken along with the 2 for the night time. But does a BS test, amazingly it's 5.9, she then thinks this T1D is so easy (but that's the wine talking) she also reviews the results from the last few days and says I must try harder.
02:46: I wake in a shivering hot sweat, my wife gently snoring away oblivious of my hypo and my attempts to wake her. My final thought is the poor old dog still hasn't been for a walk......
My worry is my references, I don’t know if my current manager will say anything to prevent me finding work. I think that’s the last hurdle of this process, I have all the relevant documents but it’s just the references.
Mei - I obviously don't know anything about your current employer, but employers have to be very careful what the write in references these days, to the extent that most employers references merely state facts, like the dates Of your employment. If you had already left, they would ask if you had been dismissed, and unless your prospective job is in certain fields, that's about it.
Honestly, please don't worry. References are usually a formality.
Hi all, busy day here, keep saying I need to adjust evening Lantus and every time I say that my bg goes up again in the morning so I put it off. Woke to a 3.9 so really think I need to do it now.
@slip funny but really scary idea!
@MeiChanski that's some decision you need to make. I guess it really depends on how much you want to pursue uni; doesn't nursing usually require a degree these days?
I had a look into this, I think training or work replacements will be needed as well as a degree to be a diabetes nurse specialist. I know some went into being a general nurse with a BTEC/NVQ qualification and training. But at the moment I applied to work along side nurses which is a start I suppose.
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