This weekend, we took a visiting college friend who had never been to San Francisco into the city to do all kinds of touristy things that are fun for locals too (even if they won’t admit it). Even though it’s been a few years since we lived south of the Golden Gate Bridge, the crazy urban details that mess with t1d management come back immediately.
It’s damn near impossible to know how much, how sporadic, or exactly how intense the city traversing is going to be, but it’s always there: The long slow incline up certain hills in Chinatown; insane inclines like Lombard and the south end of Masonic; the quick sprint needed to grab the 8x Stockton bus; and the power walk around Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park.
I’d never “done” the city with a continuous glucose monitor before. It certainly helped, but I still had to guess how much to decrease the temp basal rate and for how long. I also had to SWAG a lot of the awesome food we had, from the yummy chicken veggie skewers in the Haight to the fresh sample at the fortune cookie factory, from the delish Ghirardelli chocolate at G. Square to the comfy clam chowder in a Boudin sourdough bread bowl. Despite my best efforts, I still had to chug the juicy juice–while riding the cable car and hiking to the awesome parking space we found on Lombard, among other places.
Anyway, we had a touristy kind of ball and so did our friend. Of course I took a ton of photos, a couple of them with the D all front and center. First time I’ve ever done that, and it was kind of cool.
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