That's good and just quietly it might be a lesson for your mum.
Hopefully someone with authority will explain to her why he needs to
watch his carbs. Not saying the stroke was caused by high bg's and
co-related lipid abnormalities but in a diabetic its always a
possibility.


"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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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