Fearless36
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Excellent re your son doing well. I can relate entirely. I was 4 years when I was diagnosed and know my mother felt the same as you and struggled. There was little help or support given to her. I know she relayed to me that she found injecting me hard (at 4 years I couldn't do it myself then) and I used to plead with her that I would be good etc. She knew that if she didn't I would be unwell and felt enormous guilt over having done that - but I fully realise that she had to do it. Your son will be exactly the same. The feelings you are feeling are completely understandable but you have to realise you are not the cause here. There is nothing you could have done differently to prevent this from happening. However what you are doing now will be a godsend to him in his later years. I was lucky in that my mother was very upbeat and she often stressed to me that I was special and that diabetes had advantages that I didn't often realize - in that I learned about how my body worked, how it dealt with food etc and that often got me thinking and lessened the burden of it. Today I don't view diabetes as a curse at all - in fact quite the opposite, I'm very grateful for it.
