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When I was a lad it was a long while ago

BruceT said:
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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Did you have one of these @BruceT ? R.D.Lawrence invented the line diet (Lawrence Line Weight Diet) which was printed in this book:
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Congratulations in achieving 65 years - that's fantastic!
 
Grant_Vicat said:
I never saw these @jaywak - maybe I had stopped getting The British Diabetic Association paper (Balance)?
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It can't be that long ago I saw an advert in Balance for the watch , well in the last 20 yrs anyway , I only threw my watch out recently with a lot of old diabetic management stuff , what I need now I can fit in my jacket pocket .
 
I remember the Balance magazine use to have adverts for Holstein Pils larger , this was before they realised that drinking alcohol can drop your blood sugar , everyday’s a skool day
 
I can remember the Holsten Pils it had a label on the bottle saying it had 3.5 grms carb per bottle and was recommended by the BDA , I think they stopped the label because it sounded like they were recommending alcohol , I still buy four cans of it from the supermarket now and again but I think it's about the same carbs now as its rivals .
 
I remember Marstons 'Low C' - I think they advertised it as a low carb beer (carbs turned to alcohol).

My dad used to buy this for me in the local pub when I was a teenager.

On a Wednesday my mum worked - so we went to the local pub (near where my dad worked) and played pool - had a 2 low C's and I went back to school.

Wasn't till my 30s I realised, once a week I'd had a pint of stronger than average beer and went back to do double maths.

Oooopps....
 
CheeseSeaker said:
I remember Marstons 'Low C' - I think they advertised it as a low carb beer (carbs turned to alcohol).

My dad used to buy this for me in the local pub when I was a teenager.

On a Wednesday my mum worked - so we went to the local pub (near where my dad worked) and played pool - had a 2 low C's and I went back to school.

Wasn't till my 30s I realised, once a week I'd had a pint of stronger than average beer and went back to do double maths.

Oooopps....
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Did you pass your maths exam?
 
jaywak said:
I can remember the Holsten Pils it had a label on the bottle saying it had 3.5 grms carb per bottle and was recommended by the BDA , I think they stopped the label because it sounded like they were recommending alcohol , I still buy four cans of it from the supermarket now and again but I think it's about the same carbs now as its rivals .
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When I was 13 my parents set up a recital in our house for an American concert pianist. During the interval my father handed me a bottle of Diat Pils, which certainly lived up to this label. I drank it like water and didn't appreciate the second half!!
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I've just had a memory pop into my head....
When i was diagnozed 50 years ago i was in hospital on a ward of about 12 children most of which were in having had their tonsils removed.
At meal times they got an oblong of ice cream with rice pudding.
I got nowt because i was diabetic and they made me sit round the table all together.
To an unenlightened child aged 6 it seemed very cruel....

4 years after that i was put in hospital again to change the insulin i was on.

It s strange world lol

Tony
 
Tony337 said:
I've just had a memory pop into my head....
When i was diagnozed 50 years ago i was in hospital on a ward of about 12 children most of which were in having had their tonsils removed.
At meal times they got an oblong of ice cream with rice pudding.
I got nowt because i was diabetic and they made me sit round the table all together.
To an unenlightened child aged 6 it seemed very cruel....

4 years after that i was put in hospital again to change the insulin i was on.

It s strange world lol

Tony
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This brings back vivid memories of one of my aunts every Easter. She would hand Easter eggs to my brother and sister and then turn to me and say "You can't have these dear because of your diabetous". I wanted to speak to her in Anglo-Saxon, but "One doesn't do that, do we dear?".Bedside manner has generally improved!
 
Tony337 said:
When i was diagnozed 50 years ago i was in hospital on a ward of about 12 children most of which were in having had their tonsils removed.
At meal times they got an oblong of ice cream with rice pudding.
I got nowt because i was diabetic and they made me sit round the table all together.
To an unenlightened child aged 6 it seemed very cruel....
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I was the same nearly 60 years ago @Tony337 and also not getting the banana sandwich when everyone else did. I got cheese or cold meat if I was lucky!!
 
When I was diagnosed (1973) my mum and dad asked the nurses

"If he can't have sweets, what can we give him?"

Answer was "cheese"

About 20 years of newly diagnosed T1s were told that in the 70s and 80s - that made a heck of a lot of diabetic cheese addicts - for those of us 'of a certain age' (me included)
 
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