When I started writing this blog, I intended it to reflect our life with T's diabetes. I have been text-silent for a while, and I think this reflects how we have been; just getting on with it really!
We have to be more organised than we were with making sure that there is always food in the house that T can tolerate (i.e. pretty low-carb, not just low GI - and he has pretty much ignored the advice that he should have a starchy carb with each meal from the point that he realised that starchy carbs really do spike his BG levels).
The discovery of the month for us has been celeriac. Never has such an ugly vegetable tasted so good as the humble (and frankly alien-looking) celeriac root. It reeks of celery, tastes a bit like parsnip, can be baked, boiled, mashed, or (presumably) fried, and has about half the carb-content of potato. Preparing it is a bit of a job though since the roots need to be sliced off and the tough outer layer needs to be removed (a job that tends towards the knife rather than the peeler).
I have been prompted to post again because I found out yesterday that a colleague of mine is waiting for the results of a diabetes test; should the results (gods-forbid) come back positive, then he is exactly the person I am writing this for. Naturally I wouldn't wish diabetes on anyone, but it seems not to be quite the end of the world that it initially appeared to be.
In other news; we are both still losing weight and T is now outside the 'obese' category - he has worked hard, and I am immensely proud of what he has achieved.* It was T's birthday the other day and a group of us went out for a carvery complete with roast potatoes, stuffing, yorkshire pudding and lemon meringue pie. T did have a spike, but it went down quickly and was only 10.4 (if I recall correctly).
We went to the Bluebell Railway at the weekend for both my dad and B's first trip on a steam train - great stuff! We enjoyed our picnic too and were rather blessed with the weather.
We have a wedding to go to this weekend, and I should imagine that there will be a corresponding BG spike at some point during the day - but his levels are generally quite good and this is a very occasional thing!
Right, back to the grindstone - the thing with my new job is that I quite like the grindstone here, and the other grindstone operatives are all very companionable too!
*I still have a way to go before I no longer appear to have a genetic link to Jabba the Hutt.
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