Trying new things for dinner

So tonight I made Pistachio crusted pork chops with homemade pasta and a Mustard Tarragon cream sauce. I am always looking for new ways to cook food and getting my kids to try some thing different. Being diabetic makes it a little harder as I need to watch the crabs I eat.
One thing I have found is that regular pasta does not react with me the way it does for most diabetics. Normally you can only have about 1 cup of pasta, but for me I can eat a huge pate full and still have my blood sugars in range. Any other diabetic would be sky high. Now they make a pasta for diabetic called "Dream Fields". They say it's not something for those who are not diabetic to really eat a lot of, but it the carbs in it work differently and a diabetic can eat more of it. I found out that for it does not work. If I eat just a 1/4 of a cup of this pasta it send my blood sugars sky high.
I know, it is very strange. I like to think that it's my Italian blood that is say "Are you kidding me!!! No respectful Italian would eat that stuff." But seriously, I have no clue as to why Dream Fields pasta does the opposite with me, but I am glad it does. I did not like the taste of it at all. It was kind of pastie.
Anyways, last night I made Beef kabobs with couscous salad, cucumber yogurt, and hummus. I actually had about 2 cups of the couscous and I used Naan instead of pitas. I cut them into wedges. I had about 4 of those. My blood sugar after dinner was 113, which is great.
I don't always eat like I should (the type of foods), so I have trying to be better and eat more of the food I should be eating or trying to find a way to lower the carbs. I really wish my kitchen was a restaurants kitchen, fully stocked all the time and all the cooking equipment too, oh and lets not forget someone to clean up all my messes, lol. I think I would be in heaven.
Well it is time to change the ol' pod (insulin pod). Til next time.

Birthday Party

So today we are going to a birthday party for one of the kids who came to Sofie's party. I enjoy being around the people and love the food. We were suppose to go swimming today, but it's raining out. So a no go on swimming. I got my stitches out yesterday, ouch! It's nice being able to move my thumb like normal again. If I did not mention it before, I had trigger thumb. Last June I started to get a dull pain at the bottom of right thumb. I hate going to the Dr's so I put it off, thinking maybe I just pulled a muscle. Well it did not get better. I was laying Sofie down one night and laid her down wrong and she unbent my thumb which shot a sharp pain through it. I called the Dr the next morning. We did x-rays to rule out arthritis. Then I was sent to a hand Dr and found out I had Trigger thumb. I went last Weds for surgery to fix it. I could have done a steroid shot, but because of my diabetes, it may not have worked and I would have to wait 3-4 weeks to see if it did work. I did not want to wait, so opted for surgery. It's still a little sore, but at least I can un-bend it like before.

Well I have to go get in the shower and get ready for the party. Oh and so does little miss Sofia. Who is right now playing on the floor with little water toypedos, rubbing them in her hair. There is never a dull moment with her. I love watching her and am amazed at how smart she is. She truly lights up my life. 

I have an idea I will be working on for the Pods I wear. I have a lot of research to do on it and not sure what all I have to do. I tried to ask my son, but he tends to get anal anytime I ask him a question, like I should know all the answers to everything already so I don't have to bother him. So I guess I will be on my own for now. When I find out more, I will blog about it.


So..........
The birthday party was fun. I love the food!!! They had a whole pig, rice and beans, jicama (which I thought were potatoes with lard on it, lol but they were good), macaroni salad, a pork sandwich, cake and jello. They had 3 piñata's for the kids and some games like musical chairs for the kids and adults. Sofie was a hit, lol. All in all, it was nice to be out and around other people and I always love trying new food.

Catching up and pet peeves

I am so bad at blogging, lol. But really I get in these moods of depression and really don't want to do anything. Then there is spark that gets me so wound up that I have to get it off my chest.

So I come back to my blog to write about it. But before I do, let me do a quick catch up on things. Sofia is getting so big. I wish life had a remote control so I could pause her from growing up so fast. She is cutting about 4-8 teeth right now, she already has 7 teeth. She talks a lot and no matter where she goes people have to stop and see her and talk to her.

This was taken the other day.

So since my last post, we have finally moved. I have not been keeping up with my diabetes as well as I should be, shame on me. I just had surgery last Weds. for trigger thumb on my right hand and I get the stiches out tomorrow. Relationship wise, well that should be a blog all on it's own. Sometimes I would love to post about it on Facebook, but with him and his uncle being on my friends list, it hard to. Sometimes I think I am asking too much, but then other times, I think it's more that he wants everything without having to give up anything. I am very independent on a lot of things and I sometime expects everyone to be the same. When it comes to Daniel, it seems he has a problem saying no to everyone in HIS family, but me. Maybe that's because in the back of his mind I really am not his family. The way he is and the things he does pushes me away from him. I just want to scream at him "Tell your mom NO!!!" "Tell your family to leave you ALONE!!!!" "Tell them to do things on their OWN!!!", but he won't do it. He is so afraid of them walking out and leaving him.

Why does he feel this way, you may ask? Well his own mother walked out and left him when he was about 2 and then came back and took him from his father. She was always sending him off to stay with his grandmother and Godmother, while she did what she wanted. He sees it as her letting him visit and spend time with family, but how many moms out there would put their 5 year old child on a bus for 8 hours alone to visit family? Being a mom, I could never see myself doing this. Especially in the middle of the night. She then once again leaves him when he was 15 to come to the states with her boyfriend. She left him with no home and no money and he wonders why I don't want a thing to do with his mother and why I don't like her (besides things she has done to me personally as well).

I feel as though I am fighting with "the other woman", which in a way I am. It's like he is married to her and I am the mistress. It's really destroying our relationship and he won't see it, even when I talk to him about it. He goes on defense no matter what I say about his mother. It's like I am married to my ex all over again, except instead of it being alcohol and drugs I am pushed aside for it's his mother. All I know is that I won't stay for long in this kind of relationship. It makes me think I am much better off without any men in my life at all, because all they do is let me down and it's one more thing I don't need to stress out about. Dealing with diabetes is a lot to handle on it's own.

So on to dealing with my diabetes. I came across a blog today from a woman with type 1 and I "Hot Button" post. I so feel the same way. She was talking about how she was having a conversation with someone who asked her about diabetes and during this conversation someone nearby come over and joined in the conversation and thought to correct her on her knowledge of diabetes. Problem with this is that the person correcting her was not a doctor, nor were they a diabetic. I really hate it when people do this. I mean just because you know someone who knows someone who is diabetic, does not make you an expert now on diabetes. My own mother is a type 2 diabetic and I knew nothing about diabetes UNTIL I became diabetic myself.

I also read a post of hers about the difference between type 2 and type 1. When I tell people that I am diabetic I usually get asked, "Type 2?" A normal assumption, but not correct. When I say I am type 1, the next question is how long have I been type 1 or at what age in my childhood was I diagnosed. Most of what society knows about diabetes is so very vague. I had a woman argue with me that my Endocrinologist was wrong in diagnosing me as type 1, because you can only be type 1 if you have diabetes from childhood. This was coming from a woman who only had Gestational diabetes. It's like a woman who has only had a miscarriage early on telling a woman who is 38 weeks pregnant what child birth is like or a woman who has given birth to a child and never had a miscarriage, what it is like to have a miscarriage or even a man telling a women what child birth feels like.

So I asked my Dr and he assured me (not that I ever doubted him in the first place) that he knows what he is doing and how to test and diagnose someone as type 1. Type 1 can be distinguished from type 2 diabetes via a C-peptide assay, which measures endogenous insulin production.

Here is what I read in Daley's post about the difference between type 2 and type 1. "Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune chronic illness that is not brought on by diet or lifestyle. We have to have insulin all day everyday (because we don’t produce it anymore), and our blood sugars are affected by everything we do, not just by the food we are putting in our bodies. Type 2 Diabetes for some is caused by lifestyle and obesity (which is in the persons control) and for others age and genetics (which are not in the persons control). People with Type 2 diabetes still produce insulin; their bodies are just insulin resistant. This disease can be controlled by diet and exercise, but in cases where the disease has progressed the person may be put on oral medication and/or insulin injections."

So given the fact that my Dr did a C-peptide on me and my pancreas does not work at all, I am a type 1 diabetic.

So my pet peeve today is educate yourself before opening your mouth and thinking you know more then the person who has the disease. Also, just because someone is diabetic does not mean that can not eat sweet, or starches, we can eat them as long as we keep it in our carb range. I can not tell you how many looks I get from people judging me when they know I am a diabetic and eating some sweets.

I am off to research some more. I hope to get a blog going on low carb foods sometime in the future. So keep checking back. Oh and I will try to get back in here and post more then once every so many months. Sorry about that.