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Message: <blockquote data-quote="donnellysdogs" data-source="post: 457837" data-attributes="member: 17713">It's so hard for both parents and children to cope with diabetes.  To be honest, I have never seen a posting anywhere that says " HEY, MY T1CHILD AND I ARE PERFECT"..... Personally, I know of a gentleman whose daughter was diagnosed in her teens and he is at his wits end because of her being admitted 3 times to hospital because of DKA.  After meeting me, and  seeing how I have lived with it for 30years, she is now at least doing her blood tests and injecting. She wasn't told I was diabetic before meeting me, and she didn't  know that I was using my remote control with my pump until meeting up for meals for the 3rd time... She thought I had a mobile phone...not my remote control, and my pump is under my jumper on my arm, so she couldn't see that either. She knew I went to order meals, and that was when I tested myself, so she saw that I was living as a totally normal non diabetic.......she didn't have a clue. On our 3rd meal.. Afterwards we told her, and now she wants to be like me, with a pump and getting on with her life. We talked about sex with pump etc, meeting boys, feeling different... Things she couldn't talk to her parents or her non diabetic friends about. Do you know whether your hospital may have somebody like me that would perhaps do the same with your child?</blockquote>

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