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Default Too many carbs!

its nice to hear a good report about a medical facility, Lee
"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> My dad is now on the floor where they do physical therapy. My mom called
> in his lunch order and tried to get him a taco salad and penne pasta They
> wouldn't let her do that. It was too many carbs. I think the penne had
> 15 g but am not sure. He did have that for dinner tonight and it wasn't
> an overly large portion.
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> The taco salad came in a nice looking edible bowl but it was made of a
> corn tortilla and not one of those fried flour things. 45 g of carb, or
> it would have been had he eaten the shell. He did not. Just ate the
> salad and a raw veggie plate. Also a sugar free Jell-O.
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> So Swedish is on top of things when it comes to diabetic diets. Yes, I
> know some of you would be mortified at that many carbs. He does take
> basal insulin all of the time and he is on basal. I don't know how they
> figure his basal. I was worried that he'd go hypo because he didn't eat
> the carb portion of his meal. But he did not. The test BG before every
> meal.
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