Diabetes Retention #78,290: Nutrient Prep Flashbacks

I grew upward at the tail terminate of the Diabetes Dark Ages. Only a few types of insulin were available then, nosotros tested urine instead of blood sugars as well as in that location were no such things every bit CGMs or insulin pumps. My parents had three children out of half-dozen alongside type 1 as well as my dad had t1. Things were hectic as well as crazy as well as it wasn't calm or easy. 
I’ve written most it earlier but honestly I don’t know how the hell they survived diabetes sans back upward - but they did - And I am hence grateful.  
It’s funny that nutrient prep tin select dorsum childhood memories of life with  D, but it totally does as well as did. The following happened Sunday night. 
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Mom & I - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1  few months earlier I was dx'd

Sunday black I was prepping nutrient for the week. And yesteryear prepping I hateful pre-slicing Granny Smith apples, spritzing the slices alongside juice from a lemon hence they wouldn’t chocolate-brown inward the refrigerator as well as would live all laid upward for my Mon morn dark-green smoothie. 
I washed a bunch of babe spinach as well as spun it dry out inward my salad spinner as well as cutting upward bananas chunks to freeze for the same breakfast smoothie. 
I pre-peeled organic carrots, sliced them as well as threw them inward a drinking glass jounce filled alongside H2O ice H2O as well as placed it inward the fridge, hence they were proficient laid upward whenever I wanted to snack on something crunchy as well as depression carb. 
My prep fourth dimension was quick as well as only every bit I was finishing upward the carrots, I had a flashback of my childhood  - to my mom standing at the sink peeling carrots as well as placing them inward a glass jar filled alongside H2O ice H2O inward the refrigerator - Something she did daily as well as long earlier I was diagnosed. Followed yesteryear a retentiveness of her washing grapes as well as strawberries, drying them completely,  then counting out precisely 12 grapes, wrapping them inward saran-wrap for my schoolhouse snack bag. 
Next she' standard 1 loving cup of strawberries, spell them inward one-half as well as house them inward a small-scale Tupperware container as well as seat  it inward my luncheon box.
Mom tried hence difficult to brand things every bit normal every bit possible for me/us when it came to eating. 
As a family, nosotros alone dined on small-scale baked potatoes instead of big ones at dinner, in that location were ever lots of raw veggies because I liked raw veggies ameliorate than cooked veggies - Still create to this day.  And ever carbohydrate gratuitous chocolate pudding for dessert. 
FTR: I don’t dig carbohydrate gratuitous anything, except for carbohydrate gratuitous chocolate pudding.
Yep, my mom did her absolute best as well as I wasn’t ever grateful - I fought the grapes as well as refused to consume them  a lot of times because “who the hell alone eats 12 grapes?” 
I preferred strawberries as well as apples because I felt similar I was getting to a greater extent than smasher for my diabetes buck - they weren’t gratuitous foods, but they certain felt similar it sometimes.
Looking back, she allow me become to sleepovers because she knew it was of import to live alongside my friends. I’m certain in that location were telephone calls made betwixt the sleepover parents as well as mine as well as I accept no doubtfulness that my sugars were on the high side the side yesteryear side day, but I don’t remember. I only retrieve the sleeping over, staying upward as well as having fun, parts. 
I took tap dancing on Sabbatum mornings as well as did gymnastics three days a week. 
I ever carried my snack alongside me as well as mom waited alongside the balance of the moms inward the waiting room until the terminate of class, when nosotros performed for our parents. 
I ever ate a big snack bird earlier bird as well as if I needed to consume during, I ate. 
My parents made certain my teachers knew as well as nobody ever made a big bargain of it - except for my fifth bird instructor - but that’s for approximately other post. 

And every bit I stood at the sink thinking most all those things my eyes started to learn all leaky. 

I was a lucky duck to accept her every bit my mom as well as I know it!
And I lady friend her hence much.