Type 1 diabetes

Here’s wishing everyone a happy holiday, and a fantastic new year
Vicky

I was taught 30 days after the bottle is open.

My Pharmacist is insisting 100 days after the bottle is open.

What are your thoughts?

Thanks for caring and sharing,
Rhonda
Mom to Sydney, 7
type 1 since April 7, 2003

Hello Stephanie,

How much flexability does what you’re feeding Maddie possess? Thirty years ago my ped. demanded that I have a single (small) bowl of ice cream because it was food, was easily counted… and demanded I eat ice cream so called “normal” food as a special thing once, and once only per week.

I traded either a bread or a fruit exchange (c. 15 carbs +/-) and simply skipped the fruit for desert, or pulled a single piece of bread (or its equivilent) off the plate. Sometimes I’d toss in some of my milk just to make it an honest ~exchance~.

You’re right its ~empty calories~ but its also milk, fat, essentially the same things you’d LIKE her to eat just in a form she’d probably love to… others have suggested it… consider asking her what SHE’d like to do… it might get you into her head a little.

Merely a thought for whatever it might be worth…

Jeff
P.S. The nurse’s technique-method of talking with you needs a severely massive overhauling, however… the jist of what she’s saying in this case anyway… IMHO (fwiw) is pretty good. It sounds like she’s got some experience with diabetes that she’s not telling you about perhaps….?

Hello Kate,

If you do the “exchange system” counting carbs is not really different save the only thing that matters is the carbs, not the vegetable type, not the dairy group, the lean meats… nada… only the carbs truly matter from the dosage standpoint.

How they will break down if there’s sufficent fat in the meal is another question, but understanding the proportions is what the whole food intake is about regardless of exchanges or carb counting.

Can you identify what a serving is, of XYZ food… accurate figure out how much food is on the plate, in that bowl, etc… if you’re fairly good at it… no major sugar surprises… if not, sometimes you get a number that doesn’t equate….

IMHO

Jeff

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Stephanie,

You handled the nurse like a pro, excellent job, hand her to the folks who adjust the dosages and let them chatter together.

Talk to the other mother of the other diabetic child in school. She’s had the problems you have. Talk with HER!! You two have a built in support group right there… and may or may not have had the same run ins. The nurse seems to mean well and seems to be asking all the right questions IMHO but her timing is idiotic and her APPROACH to badgering you… well that demands a firing squad. Anybody on the list want to join <evil grin

All you’re trying for now, is getting some basic stability…. that’s it. Multiple injections are an extremely new phenomina <sp.?

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WOW, Stephanie my son starts public school in Sept. and I hope our
nurse is not like that.
Why do you have to tell her what Maddie’s morning readings are and
what she ate? Isn’t Maddie testing herself, shouldn’t supper nurse
just be overseeing her? I think you should give her a book and tell
her you appriciat her help but (correct me if I’m wrong) a nurse is
always supposed to follow Doctors orders not question them. She
should be telling you what Maddie’s readings are during the day by
note and Maddie should be bringing home whatever food she didn’t
finish(with the teachers help). In short she should answer to you
not the other way around!
I got a book from JDRF called Living with Juvenile Diabetes, A
practical guide for parents and caregivers, BY Victoria Peurrung
She is a mom of 2 typeI children, after you read it pass it along to
supper nurse. Soon you will be very comfortable with diabetes DON’T
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Has anyone ever had a low happen at a really important time? For
example I had a low-ish episode happen at a job interview, that I of
course didnt get! After the interview my sugar was 68. What do you
do, I didnt want to excuse myself and say i needed to go get
something to eat/drink, I know in the future to eat before I go, but
has anyone else screwed up like this! Im so frustrated as i
desperatly wanted this job on campus!

Where in NJ are you? I am in Vineland.

Thanks for caring and sharing,
Rhonda
Mom to Sydney, 7
type 1 since April 7, 2003

Judith, I just read you’re post about us mom’s teaching our kids to
live, Thank You. So much of what we do for our diabeteic children
goes unnoticed and under apprciated. Our greatest thanks is that
they wake up every morning and although that is what we want we also
love the koudos from you. My Devon was only diognosed 2 months ago
but one of the greatest things I’ve learned about this is he is a
kid first and then a diabetic. It’s my job for him to live that way.
God gave us what we can handle but I can’t say it’s what we wanted.
Leanne