Down here! Yes I
know, I'm like a chameleon, hard to spot in the natural environment.
We are off to
town, I say we but I've come on ahead as I was ready with £5 tucked under my
wing to buy an Unlimited Fairy Rover Pass. Flower seems to be packing for a
long weekend break, glucose meter, spare glucose meter, spare pump cannula and
reservoir, spare batteries, back up pen and needles in case of pump failure,
fruit pastilles, I mean lighten up lady what's the worst that can happen in a
few hours? Oh, a hypo or potential diabetic ketoacidosis if your insulin
delivery fails, fair enough, I hadn't thought of that.
Well get a look
at this,
I thought we'd
come to the circus but no, it's the Cheltenham Literature Festival full of
bookworms, politicians, historians, boffins and celebs chatting about their
books. I could do this, just how hard can it be to write an international best
seller? I might just hang around looking intelligent in case any publishing
agents are talent spotting. This place is a Georgian Spa town, those Georgians
could certainly build a nice looking house but it does make me think, you
wouldn't have found an insulin dependent diabetic standing here in the 1700's,
no insulin to be dependent on. Hmm, very sobering and food for thought.
Talking about
food I think it's time we had some. Something called SmartGuard has suspended
Flowers pump, wow how space age is that technology!
It works out when her blood sugar is falling too low and
cuts off basal delivery to try and stop hypos, clever, I like it a lot.
So my challenge
today is to work out the carb value of this bun so she can work out her insulin
dose.
Well, quite obviously it's .... 15g?, 47g?
81g? does it matter? How on earth am I supposed to know, there's no label! You
can't tell me that diabetics have to go through this tedious rigmarole every
time they eat, why don't cafes give you a clue? Oh right, Flower has an app
which shows carb values for foods although not specifically this bun, she says
it's a bit of guess work and it really does matter how much insulin she gives
for the bun else she'll go hypo or hyper. It sort of takes the shine off eating
out and having buns doesn't it? I'm starting to think there might be more to
this diabetes thing, it does seem a bit more complicated than I originally
thought!
Anyway that's me
done for now, time for a large glass of wine with some crisps and nibbles,
surely they don't affect blood sugar do they? DFx
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