My wife’s understanding and patience with me (and my diabetes) seems to know no bounds, and I’m so grateful.
It hit me about halfway through my shopping list at Walmart; that feeling of my blood sugar dropping fast and the anxiety of lots of insulin on board (relatively). A quick glance at my wrist confirmed it.
Five glucose tabs left in my tube, which I ate quickly, but I knew wouldn’t be enough to do the job. Why only five left? Because I’d used the other five earlier in the day. More on that in another post.
I quickly finished shopping, keeping a close eye on things. I grabbed a sweet treat at the cash register, ate it, then headed out to the car in a buzz of relief and concern about what happened.
Why was I concerned?
Because I had seven items on my shopping list, but my cart was overflowing with groceries.
This was supposed to be a quick “we’re out of these few things…” trip and ended up much different.
That’s okay, babe.
Le sigh… 🙂
Scott, you have just given me an excuse for times when I’ve “accidentally” bought another lipstick or lip gloss, eyeshadow, or facial cleanser – except that my husband will probably not buy the excuse “Honey, I had a low again …” 🙂
Haha! Sounds like a perfectly reasonable and legitimate reason to me, Jane! 🙂
That happened to me half way through a movie. I ate tabs and candy and was okay at the end of the movie. When we were home, I asked my wife to tell me what happened in the movie after the first half hour.
Oh man, Richard! I can totally imagine that scenario! Isn’t it something? Thanks for sharing.
Always good to have an excuse for extreme grocery shopping- especially sweets.
Luckily my wife is the same like yours and that makes life with T1D that much easier!
Yes! And I like the spin you put on it – extreme grocery shopping! 🙂