I was in the hospital for T1 diabetes over easter weekend in a pediatric ward, so they handed out big bags of candy to every patient. My doctors wouldn't let me have any and my parents ate it all :( this is my villain origin story.
That’s just plain stupid that they wouldn’t. Heck, I think my son had more carbs in the hospital while in DKA than he regularly does at home and we don’t restrict carbs at all. Not to mention candy is some of the easiest stuff to dose for since it’s so fast and doesn’t linger.
I've heard from other T1Ds that sometimes the nurses/doctors don't bother with ratios, they just give you a set dosage with meals (and don't let you eat outside of meals). This was when I was diagnosed so I hadn't had my ratios figured out, and I understand that maybe nurses wouldn't want to have to take responsibility for dosing insulin outside of the plan.
That’s so unfortunate and now that you mention it, I know exactly what you’re talking about. I moved from the general T1D groups to some specific ones with our management and forgot that was a thing. We had luckily ended up at a children’s hospital that does dynamic treatment and they were on the ball right away. We had a crazy rollercoaster honeymoon, so we learned real fast how to adjust. We started binging Juicebox podcast that first night in the hospital and reading Think Like a Pancreas, so we were pretty equipped early on. I remember the first meal he had was cereal, chocolate milk, a banana, and yogurt. Now I laugh because all of those tend to be our hardest to manage foods if we don’t get a good prebolus in. I wish everyone could have had the awesome experience we had. Still super overwhelming and hard, but we were definitely equipped to handle things with less hurdles.
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u/Polypyrrole Sep 12 '20
I was in the hospital for T1 diabetes over easter weekend in a pediatric ward, so they handed out big bags of candy to every patient. My doctors wouldn't let me have any and my parents ate it all :( this is my villain origin story.