Eating Out

I am going to a customer dinner. I am luck tonight, as I am the customer and dinner is being picked up by a software salesman. Well maybe I am not so lucky. I have to sit next to the software salesman, actually there are 3 of them, all night and listen to them tell me about how good their software is and what it can do for me. We will probably also talk about sports and families. If you can ask them the right question, they will spend more time talking about their family or favorite sports team, more then they talk about software.

This however is not my biggest challenge for the evening. My true challenge is to figure out how much Humalin R I need to take with dinner. I am not ordering my food tonight. The dinner menu has been established weeks before I show up. There are about 75 other customers at the meal tonight along with about 100 sales people.

We start out with a few drinks, wine, beer or mixed drinks. I stick with red wine as I know how my body reacts to it. This time lasts about an hour before we are asked to sit down for dinner.

Dinner will be served Family style, which is good; this will help me to decide how much I want to put on my plate. At first a salad is served. The restaurant food is called Asian Fusion cuisine. Ok what does this mean? I understand the Asian, but what kind of Fusion are they talking about?

Nuclear fusion is the process by which multiple atomic particles join together to form a heavier nucleus.

Music Fusion genre is a music genre which combines two or more genres.

Gene Fusion is a hybrid gene formed from two previously separate genes.

Fusion power refers to power generated by nuclear fusion reactions.

I found what I was looking for. Wikipedia is a great tool for definitions.

Fusion cuisine combines elements of various culinary traditions while not fitting specifically into any.

The first dish is a salad. Asian greens with a tangy vinegar dressing. Probably a 4 or 5 grams of sugar in the dressing. So I am looking at 1 unit of Humalin R.

Next came the Calamari, prepared in a wok, with some very spicy dipping sauce. The Calamari was covered in a batter, so I would guess there are a few carbs in the batter and a few more grams of sugar in the dipping sauce. Maybe two more units of Humaln R.

The main course is next, with Salmon, Beef and Chicken. The Beef and Chicken are sweet, so I would guess there are a few sugars there. The Salmon is very tasty and not sweet. Surprisingly there is not bread served or potatoes or rice. This helps on keeping the carbs down.

I skip on the desert and I end up with 5 units of Humalin R and my usual 10 units of Symilin. The challenge was not as bad as I had thought it could be. No control of what was coming to the table to eat, or when it would arrive. I timed my injection for the middle of dinner hoping that I would not go hypo before I could eat enough to offset the Humalin R. It all worked out this time. No hypos at dinner and 2 hours after dinner I check my BG and I was running at 114.