So, on DW's post today she described a visit to the Nutritionist. What type of diabetic's nutritionist suggests loading up on carbs? That's crazy! he is taking lots of humalog and he is very low and all she can say is carb-load!
what a load of @#*%!!
Was this person trained in the 1950's!
That is so wrong!
Why is it that we, as the partner, have to be the voice of reason?
Why can't hubby figure it out for himself?
Where is the logic, where is the reason?
Why is she charting and graphing?
I haven't done that - until now I have said I wouldn't
but who knows what I'll do in the future?
life doesn't always give us obvious choices
I can be compassionate about the exhaustion relative to the caregiver
I've been there
sometimes once the lows start its really hard to get back into the right place
With Tom he would start hitting these lows then he would
see saw back and forth and it would take weeks until he could get it back into control
its really lousy
good luck!
tom's wife
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You will chart when you want to prove to the doctors that they need to wake up and smell the skunks out there who are giving him so much misinformation! LOL!!!
ReplyDeleteThe nutritionist is actually quite young. I think the pendulum swings. She's not a diabetic specialist - I don't think the HMO has one of those So most likely, she doesn't understand diabetic nutrition. She definitely doesn't know anything about low glycemic menus for diabetes. I'll only chart a couple more weeks to prove my point - that he's getting way too much humulin. :o)