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bunbun wrote:

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"Janithor" <JanithorHAW@comcast.net> wrote

OK, yeah, I prefer the skin to be crunchy too. Thanks for the tip.
It looks like a potato grenade went off, wah.

Hehe! I'm sorry, Thor. I feel for you, because I can imagine
waiting hungrily for that potato, thinking about what you'll put on
it, only to have your meal distributed around the oven innards,
which adds insult to
injury -- not only are you still hungry, but you have a mess to
clean up too! Life is cruel sometimes.

Coincidentally, I have a potato connection with y'all over there.
Potatoes have a high glycemic index, something it behooves a
diabetic to be aware of. When I contemplate eating potatoes, I
always flash back on a post wombn made in the days shortly after
her diabetes was diagnosed. She was discovering what kinds of
post-prandial blood sugars she was getting from different foods,
and she bemoaned the fact that eating a baked potato had made her
sugar go to 380.

That always makes me think twice and remember I need extra insulin
if I'm going to eat potatoes. Thank wombn for that little gift for
me; it helps.

taking more insulin just to eat something , not a good idea

It's exactly what I'm supposed to do for the kind of diabetes I have.
I don't have a regular "maintenance dose" of insulin, my kind of
diabetes
is more complicated than that. It's "this is not your father's
Oldsmobile" diabetes. I have a special notation on my insulin
prescription that says to give me whatever amount I ask for, because
unfortunately there's no way a doctor can just prescribe a set
amount, I have to figure out what I need and then take that. It's
different every day, depending on what my body is doing that day.
Lucky me. Yay.

On Jan 6, 4:43 am, "%" <pers...@gmail.com> wrote:

bunbun wrote:

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"Janithor" <Janithor...@comcast.net> wrote

OK, yeah, I prefer the skin to be crunchy too. Thanks for the tip.
It looks like a potato grenade went off, wah.

Hehe! I'm sorry, Thor. I feel for you, because I can imagine
waiting hungrily for that potato, thinking about what you'll put on
it, only to have your meal distributed around the oven innards,
which adds insult to
injury -- not only are you still hungry, but you have a mess to
clean up too! Life is cruel sometimes.

Coincidentally, I have a potato connection with y'all over there.
Potatoes have a high glycemic index, something it behooves a
diabetic to be aware of. When I contemplate eating potatoes, I
always flash back on a post wombn made in the days shortly after
her diabetes was diagnosed. She was discovering what kinds of
post-prandial blood sugars she was getting from different foods,
and she bemoaned the fact that eating a baked potato had made her
sugar go to 380.

That always makes me think twice and remember I need extra insulin
if I'm going to eat potatoes. Thank wombn for that little gift for
me; it helps.

taking more insulin just to eat something , not a good idea

It is good...no more dose of insulin in the future.

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"Janithor" <JanithorHAW@comcast.net> wrote

injury -- not only are you still hungry, but you have a mess to
clean up too! Life is cruel sometimes.

*sniff*

I know! And a potato can really break your heart, because it takes
so long to cook anyway, you've already invested time and have been
waiting, so when a potato explodes it's taking more than your dinner
-- it's taking an hour's worth of hopes and dreams away with it!

I forget are you Type 1 or 2? Her insulin pump is a miracle, she can
pretty much eat anything, she just need to count her carbs accurately
and have a good formula. She can even enter in data into the pump
and it will automatically calculate how much insulin to give.

Yeah, those things are great. I would definitely consider one if my
body was predictable enough to make calculations like that accurate.
I'm insulin resistant, and the way my body uses insulin and carbs is
not predictable enough, so I have to basically take my best guess
based on constant testing and data. After I was in the hospital and
the doctors saw how off the charts non-standard my diabetes is, I was
given an open prescription for insulin and test strips and now I
basically prescribe for myself -- I tell them what I need and they
give it to me.

That is so cool the pump works well for wombn! It can get to be such
a freakin' pain.

At this point I KNOW someone is reading this with furrowed brow. Yes,
Someone, I know you are right and I really will try harder to be more
conscientious and not forget to test on time. I need a little alarm
clock to put next to the computer. The way you keep track of when I
last tested and when I need to test again is amazing, I don't even
keep track as well as you do. Thank you for the times you have
figured out my blood sugar was doing bad things to me while we were
chatting or talking, when I wasn't aware of it myself, when I hadn't
noticed the gradual change in my behaviour, when I got cold or really
tired and didn't connect it to my blood sugar, but you did, and made
me test and then eat or take the insulin I needed. Thank you for
quite literally saving me from going into a coma when I was lapsing
into shock and didn't realise it, but you did. No one has ever paid
that much attention to what is good for me and helped me like that
before. Thanks for all of it.