"When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is madness." -Eckhart Tolle I wanted to write a quick post on here because I continue to observe, year after year, social media posts by Type 1 diabetics that really worry me. A big theme in the content is that they eat whatever they want. I even saw one Type 1 diabetic post a picture of them bringing a whole case of insulin pens to an Italian restaurant because Italian food has so many carbs(!) But look at all this insulin and all these needles! It takes me months to go through a Humalog pen, so I cannot even fathom going through one   pen in one  evening. That's a (I'll leave out the expletive) absolute ton of insulin to take with a meal, folks. I just looked in my refrigerator and there's 5 pens in a case. That would be completely suicidal for me. Mind you I had profound diabetic ketoacidosis when I was diagnosed in 2018, my head feeling like hamm...