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Shopping (Going out) and Diabetes

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Morning All,
I’m type 1, have been for 30 years this year. Hba1c of 7.9 which is good for me. Generally healthy, run a coupe of times a week and try to eat healthily. Also human and have treats .
What are others doing about the going out, i.e. shopping? I am working from home and doing daily exercise. I am staying with my partner who has taken control of the shopping. I ventured out on Monday morning to the 8am Marks and Spencer ‘vulnerable’ hour. It wasn’t busy and it felt so nice to have a sense of normality. What are others doing? (I’m not shielding by the way). Just be nice to hear how others are feeling about this and what they are doing.
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I’ve been driving to the nearest town to shop at a supermarket once a week, and visiting the local butcher and deli in the village in between times. I've managed to find a quiet time for the supermarket (not the elderly and vulnerable hour, which is full of all the old biddies of the town stopping in the aisles for a good gossip and having to be ushered on by staff!) basically because I hate queuing! We are relatively protected here, though, most of the weekenders have stayed away, and everyone has taken social distancing seriously, so I haven’t been unduly worried. I was chatting to the lad at the checkout last week (through the plastic screen) and he said as far as he knew, nobody in the shop had caught covid yet.
 
Robin said:
I’ve been driving to the nearest town to shop at a supermarket once a week, and visiting the local butcher and deli in the village in between times. I've managed to find a quiet time for the supermarket (not the elderly and vulnerable hour, which is full of all the old biddies of the town stopping in the aisles for a good gossip and having to be ushered on by staff!) basically because I hate queuing! We are relatively protected here, though, most of the weekenders have stayed away, and everyone has taken social distancing seriously, so I haven’t been unduly worried. I was chatting to the lad at the checkout last week (through the plastic screen) and he said as far as he knew, nobody in the shop had caught covid yet.
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Thanks Robin sounds sensible!
 
My 94 yr old dad is now shielded and as I live with him I am not going out as I don’t want to put him at risk .
 
I'm in the very vulnerable group, there's no delivery of prescriptions the pharmacy is refusing to do deliveries as to busy, the only food slot available is at 10pm! So it's easier to just to go about as I normally do. If there's a queue at the supermarket I don't bother as can't stand around to long due to MS. I walk the dog twice a day. So my day is no different than before lockdown.
 
Hi Ljc
Thankyou for your reply. That makes absolute sense
 
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I'm in the very vulnerable group, there's no delivery of prescriptions the pharmacy is refusing to do deliveries as to busy, the only food slot available is at 10pm! So it's easier to just to go about as I normally do. If there's a queue at the supermarket I don't bother as can't stand around to long due to MS. I walk the dog twice a day. So my day is no different than before lockdown.
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Hi Sue, thanks for your reply
 
I will be 30 years of T1 next year!

I‘ve halved the dog walks down to 1x a day which also counts as my exercise, and have more than halved the supermarket shopping trips from 2x a week to once a fortnight if we can manage it. I still nip to local shops for other essential bits and bobs occasionally too (eg dog food which the supermarkets dont stock). Plus the online side of my business needs a few trips to the post office every so often.

But yes... trying not to leave the house unless I need to.
 
Thanks Mike, it is good to know what other people are doing. It really is important for us to look after our mental and emotional well being, as well as our physical health and daily diabetes regimes
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It's easier for me as I work in a small supermarket (M&S). I get fresh top up bits from work, I've been to Tesco once since the lockdown. Been using a local supplier for meat delivery.
 
Luckily i have managed to get collections at asda and had to go the doctors for prescriptions etc, these are the only times i have been out managed to only go out about 6 times since the end of March. When out on saturday Tesco, Asda, & another shop had que's round the carpark. Probably was worse due to people being paid end of last week.

Be interesting to see what changes come later this week.
 
My anxiety and severe OCD wont allow me to even leave the flat, come tomorrow I wont have been out of the house at all for 8 weeks :( it may have been different if I'd lived elsewhere but I stay in a small scheme full of Eastern Europeans that aren't following any guidelines making it more difficult for me, they meet up outside to drink, allow their kids to play together, it's like one big holiday for them to do what they want, looked out the window yesterday afternoon to see a lot of the adults gathered on the fenced off grassy area in the middle of the scheme drinking with around 8 children playing on a trampoline that just appeared there yesterday, utterly ridiculous xx
 
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