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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1472019" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>I think you made a small but important step in asking that question, [USER=393363]@Natt[/USER] . Here's why I think that.</p><p></p><p>In your early posts, forgive me for saying so, it seemed to me there was a definite sense of "doom" coming across. That's understandable: we all feel that after dx. T1 seems like a faceless, unknowable monster <em>to begin with.</em></p><p></p><p>Yet, a few posts down the line, you're already asking, hmm, water-polo, libre, how will those work together, another sport maybe? </p><p></p><p>You might not see it at the moment, because, it seems to me, you're still feeling haunted by the whole thing (again, understandably so), but the fact that you're even asking about how to make T1, water-polo and libre work together shows that you're already looking for practical solutions to the day to day realities of it. </p><p></p><p>That's what T1 boils down to: figuring out how to play water-polo and wear a libre at the same time, whether to eat oatcakes or dried dates and/or both when hillwalking/cycling, how much to bolus for a scarily high-carb Chinese buffet. Practical day to day things. </p><p></p><p>It's not a monster when you look at it from that point of view. Wouldn't quite go as far as saying it's a big huggy cat, but it makes it a whole lot more manageable.</p><p></p><p> You've already started seeing it that way by asking about how do you water-polo and libre: it's just a thing and there's a way of sorting it. Think about the other aspects of it in the same way.</p><p></p><p> Sure, at the end of the day, yes, it is scary, there are uncertainties, hypos are never much fun, and there are no guarantees about complications. </p><p></p><p>Yet, the practical reality of it is that we all just learn little tweaks, nudges, tips, tricks, and the whole thing, eventually (granted, it does take a while) ends up not as an horrific monster, but, something we all just use a bit of ingenuity to live with, so that T1 kinda just becomes like a small child who needs looked after even though it can be unruly at times.</p><p></p><p>You mentioned looking twenty years into the future and worrying about what will happen. Chances are, in ten to fifteen years time, he'll be jumping on a plane to go backpacking in Asia for a year, he'll have the time of his life, send you lots of postcards and wonder why mum was so worried about it all. He'll have figured out everything he needs to set up to do a trip like that as a T1. Or, indeed, anything else he chooses to do over the next twenty years.</p><p></p><p>PS: I'm not a swimmer, but there's a few people who stick waterproof Tegaderm, Roctape, on the libre don't know how those would work in a water-polo situation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1472019, member: 374531"] I think you made a small but important step in asking that question, [USER=393363]@Natt[/USER] . Here's why I think that. In your early posts, forgive me for saying so, it seemed to me there was a definite sense of "doom" coming across. That's understandable: we all feel that after dx. T1 seems like a faceless, unknowable monster [I]to begin with.[/I] Yet, a few posts down the line, you're already asking, hmm, water-polo, libre, how will those work together, another sport maybe? You might not see it at the moment, because, it seems to me, you're still feeling haunted by the whole thing (again, understandably so), but the fact that you're even asking about how to make T1, water-polo and libre work together shows that you're already looking for practical solutions to the day to day realities of it. That's what T1 boils down to: figuring out how to play water-polo and wear a libre at the same time, whether to eat oatcakes or dried dates and/or both when hillwalking/cycling, how much to bolus for a scarily high-carb Chinese buffet. Practical day to day things. It's not a monster when you look at it from that point of view. Wouldn't quite go as far as saying it's a big huggy cat, but it makes it a whole lot more manageable. You've already started seeing it that way by asking about how do you water-polo and libre: it's just a thing and there's a way of sorting it. Think about the other aspects of it in the same way. Sure, at the end of the day, yes, it is scary, there are uncertainties, hypos are never much fun, and there are no guarantees about complications. Yet, the practical reality of it is that we all just learn little tweaks, nudges, tips, tricks, and the whole thing, eventually (granted, it does take a while) ends up not as an horrific monster, but, something we all just use a bit of ingenuity to live with, so that T1 kinda just becomes like a small child who needs looked after even though it can be unruly at times. You mentioned looking twenty years into the future and worrying about what will happen. Chances are, in ten to fifteen years time, he'll be jumping on a plane to go backpacking in Asia for a year, he'll have the time of his life, send you lots of postcards and wonder why mum was so worried about it all. He'll have figured out everything he needs to set up to do a trip like that as a T1. Or, indeed, anything else he chooses to do over the next twenty years. PS: I'm not a swimmer, but there's a few people who stick waterproof Tegaderm, Roctape, on the libre don't know how those would work in a water-polo situation. [/QUOTE]
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