After reading the positive comments supporting Diabetes UK camps for children and young adults, I’ve been thinking about what aspects of diabetes an adult camp could really help me with.
A camp dealing with bolusing for pizza and downing alcohol would have me signed up in no time.
I can cope with a cheese and tomato sandwich but change the bread for dough, melt the toppings and I’m off on a hypo-hyper-hypo seesaw. Alcohol just sends me hypo, not even a skinful, just a couple of glasses of wine.
Apart from the fun stuff up trees and in boats, what things would really help you out?
Well, let’s see – last Friday I got in from work at 1:30 am (ok its Saturday for the rest of the world) and settled down with a huge curry, rice and chapatti so we need to add curry eating at wierd times to the pizza testing.
Also having a frequent stream of teen and early twenty somethings in the house means that the kitchen is ;