Thursday, July 25, 2013

Here there be diabetes

The other day, the reasoning center of my brain took a vacation.  It could have been that I wasn't quite recovered from FFL.

Or that upon our return from FFL, Fred had to go out of town. And due to that, I had to take all three littles to the grocery store to buy food, and the whole experience kinda numbed me.

Whatever the reason, I decided to take the kids for sno-cones on the way home.  Elise was trending kind of low, it was hot, and I like sno-cones.  PURE SUGAR FOR EVERYBODY!

Did I mention it was only an hour or so before bedtime?

I thought that surely, the carb info would be on the bottles.  I could eyeball what they poured and make a pretty good educated guess. Except when I stepped up to order, neither Beavis, nor Butthead could figure out what I was talking about (I nicknamed them this for their uncanny inability to form a complete sentence, or talk without snickering).

I ended up calling a friend, who posted on our support group FB page (since I'm not on FB, I can't access). Within 5 minutes, she called me back with a bunch of responses.

I SWAG'd like a boss, and as happy as Elise was with her full-sugared, grape-flavoured "icy-pop" (as the kids dubbed them), I was even happier to see this a few hours later:
Gave her a small, uncovered snack to get her a little higher before she fell asleep
But the part that made my night was finding this right next to the sno-cone stand:


Finding a little "same-same" in the land of sugar and ice.  

***I forgot to add the best part of the story... when I was explaining to B & B that I needed the carb information; Elise, who was standing next to me, put her hands on her hips and said, "yeah, I have type 1 diabetes and my mom needs to know the carbs so she can bolus me!" So cute!

9 comments:

  1. Have been trying to SWAG the carbs on a small snowcone at our local stand this summer. Haven't nailed it as close as you yet! That's great!

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  2. Ok, so what Carbs did you guess for what size? I've been deliberately avoiding SnoCones for this precise reason!

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  3. Nice!! :) Love the strip-- wonder if B & B were any more helpful to that person? I doubt it!

    My kids think it's a big deal when I let them get a "freeze" drink at the local gas station. Secret: I let them get them there specifically because I know they are only 18 carbs for a 22oz cup!

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