Type 1 Food Lover

Friday night's dinner was at one of our usual haunts... The Park Hotel, Falkirk. The Park Hotel offers 2 courses for £14 or 3 courses for £16 and the menu changes almost every day. They always have the same staples such as Steak Pie, Lasagne, Fish and Chips etc and then a few other different things. We hadn't booked but managed to get a table straight away - it was very quiet for a Friday evening but I suppose that has to be expected on 20th January. I'm still a tad wary since my diagnosis of ordering "draught" fizzy drinks in case they don't give me 'diet' when I ask for it so I opted for a Diet Irn Bru as it comes in a can. For my starter I chose the Salsa Nachos. I was that hungry that I ate them as soon as they arrived at the table without taking a picture - I had been checking my background insulin (Levemir) in the afternoon so had nothing to eat from breakfast (around 8am) and this was now around 6.30pm. This was my first meal using Fiasp insulin

So I thought that before I start getting into the food reviews and general chat about day to day life with Type 1, I better explain how I got my diagnosis. It's quite a story... a LONG story... I suppose my 'journey' began back in October 2022. I have a form of kidney disease called IgA Nephropathy and part of the management of that is regular blood tests. I had my latest lot of blood tests in October and my renal consultant told me my blood glucose was looking a little high and asked to repeat the test so that he could rule out diabetes. I had the bloods repeated (fasting this time) and expected to hear back that everything was fine. My renal consultant arranged another call with me the week later and confirmed that I was indeed 'diabetic' and my HbA1c was 72mmol/mol (which at the time meant nothing to me but now i realise it was high but not as high as some people can get to before T1D diagnosis). So, that was a shock. However, he said it was more than likely Type

So where do I begin? Well, my name is Emma and I live in Falkirk, Scotland. I live with my husband Allan and my three fur-babies (Stookie, Sheldon and Skye). I am a MASSIVE food lover. Always have been. However... on 21st December 2022 (just a few short weeks ago) I was diagnosed as Type 1 Diabetic. WOW. It absolutely knocked me for six. So, I thought that I would start this blog as a way of documenting my journey with Type 1 as a food lover. I don't even know if anyone will read this but it'll be good to get my thoughts out of my head and on to the screen. If you are reading this - hello!