8 years today!

[Sally71]

8 years ago today my daughter was diagnosed, aged 6, very thin and poorly and looked so tiny and frail in the hospital bed

We have obviously come a very long way since then and now take diabetes in our stride most of the time! Daughter has decided to celebrate her diaversary by baking herself a treat - a giant choc chip cookie covered with Nutella and lots of sweets and mini biscuits Will probably need half a pump full of insulin for each slice, but ho hum, I think she deserves a treat! She's going to take a selfie of her eating it to show any future know-all’s who try to tell her that she can’t eat sweets

 

[Vonny]

How fantastic! I hope she really enjoys her treat, she clearly deserves it. 🙂 I make my type 2 son diabetic "ferrero rochers", made with ground and whole hazelnuts, cocoa powder and sugar free chocolate. Disgusting to make but I tell him that's how much I love him! I hope your daughter has a wonderful and tasty diaversary x

 

[Kaylz]

Wow that's humungous! lol, surprised you managed to bake it! Is that party rings on it? Yum! I hope she enjoys every single piece! xx

 

[Sally71]

Yes mini party rings, mini Oreos, Smarties and Crispy M&Ms! And half a jar of Nutella...
She's been low half the time the last couple of days so maybe this will keep her out of hypo territory overnight tonight LOL!

 

[Robin]

Droool....

 

[Pumper_Sue]

8 years ago today my daughter was diagnosed, aged 6, very thin and poorly and looked so tiny and frail in the hospital bed

We have obviously come a very long way since then and now take diabetes in our stride most of the time! Daughter has decided to celebrate her diaversary by baking herself a treat - a giant choc chip cookie covered with Nutella and lots of sweets and mini biscuits Will probably need half a pump full of insulin for each slice, but ho hum, I think she deserves a treat! She's going to take a selfie of her eating it to show any future know-all’s who try to tell her that she can’t eat sweetsView attachment 14809

Oh wow that does look yummy 🙂 Congratulations on the 8 years diaversary. I hope you as mum had a ginormous bite from that cookie for looking after little one so well 🙂

Not sure I dare ask but how big is the cookie going to be on each diaversary? 😱

 

[Sally71]

Oh wow that does look yummy 🙂 Congratulations on the 8 years diaversary. I hope you as mum had a ginormous bite from that cookie for looking after little one so well 🙂

Not sure I dare ask but how big is the cookie going to be on each diaversary? 😱

LOL it can’t get much bigger, we don’t have a large enough baking tray! Maybe she'll make two next year!

This is the first time she's done anything actually, usually we forget because she's at school. Covid or not we are now on summer holidays already this year!

Yes I did have a slice and it was well yummy, plenty left for tomorrow, plus quite a few of the sweets and little biscuits left over... oh dear I can feel all the weight I lost last year going straight back on already!

 

[trophywench]

It'll be my 48th diaversary very soon, is she taking orders do you think? LOL

(I don't even like Nutella, in fact the only thing I do like are the Smarties!) (and the actual cookie)

 

[SB2015]

Happy Diaversary to C for yesterday

That cake looks amazing and sometimes you just have to do it.
You all deserve a treat.

 

[Sally71]

It'll be my 48th diaversary very soon, is she taking orders do you think? LOL

(I don't even like Nutella, in fact the only thing I do like are the Smarties!) (and the actual cookie)

LOL I’m sure she would happily take orders we could cover it with anything you like... Posting it to you might be tricky though 😱😱
She's determined to send a slice to a friend who moved away, how on Earth we are going to package it up so that the poor kid doesn’t just receive a pile of gooey crumbs I have no idea!

At bedtime her scan was 8.4 and stable, i checked her again at 2.30am and she'd shot up to 16.6 - oops 😳
Came straight back down again after a correction though.
I did say to her yesterday that for the size of portion she had I thought she'd guessed the carbs somewhat conservatively

 

[trophywench]

It's something every T1 has to learn, that although we can fool people sometimes (eg Have you done your homework? Oooh, yes, finished it ages ago mom! - so you can go out to play) we cannot kid our BG. It just doesn't respond to anything except carbs and insulin. It's a right boring old fart. You can try and keep trying to get it to do something different to usual, for a change, but it just never will.

Eventually - we give up the unequal struggle and resign ourselves to just keeping it happy, cos it turns out that's easier in the finish! 😉

 

[Sally71]

Yes I think if I was still in charge of her boluses I’d have guessed considerably higher for that beastie... and would probably still have expected higher than usual numbers later! Have never really managed to successfully do an increased temp basal after a carb overload, and completely forgot about that option last night When she was younger and went to birthday parties (which are basically a massive carb-fest!) we used to put in a massive number of carbs e.g. 250 and put it on a 50/50 multi wave bolus over 3 hours and then let her just join in with the others and eat what she liked. Used to work brilliantly and keep her dead stable, seems to be less successful as she's got older though sadly.

But she's 14 now and has got to learn to do things for herself (and usually does a pretty good job I must add). She said she'll do the same number of carbs today for a smaller piece and we'll see how that goes!

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Congratulations to you both!

Brilliant cake *slurp!*

 

[Pumper_Sue]

But she's 14 now and has got to learn to do things for herself (and usually does a pretty good job I must add). She said she'll do the same number of carbs today for a smaller piece and we'll see how that goes!

Perhaps cut a chunk and weigh it and work on the principle that 100gm = 50 carbs that would be a starting point. Once you know the weight you can then do a better eyeball guestimate for the next feast 🙂

 

[Gary S]

8 years ago today my daughter was diagnosed, aged 6, very thin and poorly and looked so tiny and frail in the hospital bed

We have obviously come a very long way since then and now take diabetes in our stride most of the time! Daughter has decided to celebrate her diaversary by baking herself a treat - a giant choc chip cookie covered with Nutella and lots of sweets and mini biscuits Will probably need half a pump full of insulin for each slice, but ho hum, I think she deserves a treat! She's going to take a selfie of her eating it to show any future know-all’s who try to tell her that she can’t eat sweetsView attachment 14809

Many congratulatios to all the family, I personally know what a struggle it is. Hope you enjoy every lovely crumb.