Thanksgiving!

As we all know Thanksgiving is about spending time with family, watching football, and of course FOOD! 

As most of us just pile our plates high with all of our favorite foods, and yes, go maybe go back for 2nds and sometimes even 3rds. LOL! And let's not forget about all the desserts! How many of you are keeping track of the carbs you are eating?? Probably none of you...unless you are a type 1 diabetic.

We had two Thanksgivings in two days. And with all the yummy foods and all the yummy desserts, Shanie still had to count how many carbs she ate. Actually she really had to "guess" since it is hard to find the exact carb count for everything. And she still had to test her blood sugar many times. More than normal due to her having to "guess", because she could guess wrong and either go high or low. She did go low both days. On one of the days she tested once in front of her little cousin, and then she of course had to test again later and her little cousin said, "You have to do that again?"  

Then yesterday while eating with her great grandfather, which he is type 2, he kept saying that he was taking the day off from diabetes. With him being 89 years old, he will never fully understand what Shanie has to go through. And sadly for our baby girl and everyone else with type 1, they can NEVER EVER take a day off from type 1! The closest she gets to "taking a day off" would be that she doesn't have to keep her carbs under 250 grams and she can bolus more than 5 times if she wants. The funny thing about that is she still stayed under 250 grams and she didn't even bolus 5 times. :-) We try to give her as much freedom as we can on holidays, but she still has to keep fighting that monster!