I still remember the line diet. I was diagnosed 65 years ago, and when I left hospital I remember my mum was given a couple of sheets of paper divided vertically into "black" and "red" foods, the black being carbohydrates and the red protein. The "black" foods were described into weight/number of items which equated to 10g.
For some years when I was a child, my mum religiously weighed out each meal!
The syringes were hand sterilised daily, and stored in the larder, lying on a bed of cotton wool, soaked in surgical spirit.
A mixed basel and bolus animal insulin, taken once daily, and urine testing by 'Clinitest'.
Thankfully substantial progress has been made, but Type 1 still remains a worrying and sometimes frightening thing I'm sure for newly diagnosed.
Looking back, my parents were fantastic, and the best advice they consistently gave me as a youngster was " never forget, it lives with you, you don't live with it" !
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