That's really good about the eye test - by the way, you now qualify for free eye tests, prescriptions and eye tests forever, if you didn't notice that on the website; you'll need to apply for an exemption certificate.
I'm not suggesting podiatry as a beauty treatment - Diabetes affects the nerves and blood supply, so foot health is absolutely vital, even more so when it's very common for sensation in the feet to be reduced as a result of nerve damage. If you are physically able to check your feet and look after them daily, fine, but you'll still need to have checks from a professional as they'll also be able to monitor circulation/pulses.
One of my best mates, a giant beardy drummer, has T2 and is absolutely evangelical about skin & foot care, so he's the one who gave me the info because he knows that Psoriasis has some features that can also make feet very vulnerable, especially when on medication - I can't remember if you've said anything that might mean you're vulnerable to pressure injuries due to immobility, but it would be so easy to develop calluses, fissures and ulcers and/or infections if your skin and nails aren't kept in top condition.
His recommendations were to use a cream/ointment that contains 10% Urea (CCS or Eucerin are great - we use standard emollient ointment everywhere else, adding the urea ones where there's a patch that's thickening or dry), never clip, pick, dig or tear at little bits of skin and a diamond metal file or glass file used little and often are far safer for dealing with calluses or patches of skin that come under pressure, such as backside, base of spine, hips or 'not that I'd know, but all the way around where bras go, especially underneath'.
He's not keen on the footcare appointments but he has lost a lot of sensation whilst trying to manage his bloods over the years, so reckons the weirdness of being checked and treated is far better than what it would be like if he lost a foot from not doing it.
He finds it's easier for him to eat very low carb with things like courgette strips instead of pasta everytime, cauliflower cheese rather than macaroni, having boiled eggs, mini cheese packs, olives, pickles and the like in the fridge ready for snacks, rather than base his meals around wholegrain stuff and still having cravings for sweet, starchy things. And he always thinks 'what extra veg can I add to this?' rather than just having things as they come. He's not spending hours in the kitchen because a) it's tiny and he isn't and b) he's been partially sighted since he was nine, but says 'it's not too hard to add a bit of a bag of frozen veg, cut up a courgette, pepper or put a handful of cherry tomatoes and a bag of leaves on a plate'.
If I'm patronising or offending you, I apologise, I don't mean to - but I do think his logic that allowing himself to be touched sooner is preferable to how much he'd need to be touched if he became an amputee or had an ulcer that wouldn't heal (some of the treatments for those sound very traumatic for some people) makes sense.