Recent Content by EmmaRW0811

I've seen the post on Facebook and I just want to offer you a big ((hug)). It would have upset me when I'm at my calmest. In the first few weeks after my son's diagnosis when the world was spinning out of control in my head I think I would have been utterly gutted. I can only guess she didn't...

My son, then nine, was diagnosed with Type 1 on our (his parents') wedding anniversary back in November! So I spent our wedding anniversary on a camp bed in the children's ward, while my husband stayed at home with our younger son. Sometimes the timing can just make you think the universe has a...

Hello Michik, I'm reading this all these months later and I hope you and your parents have found ways to give you more freedom! I'm 41 and a female physicist. I met my husband at university - our first date was my 19th birthday and we were university laboratory partners - we built a laser...

Ooh. Thanks! My son had a couple of canoeing sessions with Thames Young Mariners and absolutely loved them (before diagnosis): I'm going to have a conversation with them about what support they can offer in their holiday time day long courses. I'd like it for him to do more of that. In the...

Thank you all. His BG readings have actually been all over the place on days he hasn't run too. I guess at least part of this is the different routine of being on holiday and at the grandparents... you've all reassured me to keep trying: both to do things like running and to try to see patterns...

My son was diagnosed with Type 1 on the 14th November a couple of weeks before his tenth birthday. We're still in the honeymoon phase and we've been getting good control with 90% of his readings between 4-9 using a four-injections-a-day insulin routine and carb counting at meals - keeping most...

Thanks all. At the time I was writing that I was massively stressed. It seemed like every day I came closer to getting them to take him back there was just one more barrier. I know in the long term we'll be able to match his insulin to what he chooses to eat, but in the short term while we and...

Thank you. I did indeed ask the nurse to go in to speak to them and it really helped.

My son will be 10 tomorrow. He was diagnosed three weeks ago. It's been quite a journey for our whole family- one with ups and downs! First, get sleep. You're unlikely to do anything wrong or get any hypos in that first week. Get rest, take stock and get into the habits of the new routines...

That all sounds really tough. Poor you - but I agree with the previous post - you're doing an excellent job for your daughter to be so positive. Be gentle with yourself!

Thank you. Actually the school itself is fine. It's the separate company that collects him from school at 3:15 and looks after him until I finish work at 6pm that's the problem. And the DSN did come and talk to them and to the school at the same time. I'm sure it will sort out by the end of the...

I'm feeling quite frustrated this evening. My son went back to school Friday afternoon and has been in as normal this week. But the after school club are making me jump through more and more hoops. I started discussing it with them last week. I organised all the supplies on Monday and prepared...

Thank you very much. You're right that the temptation is to learn as much as possible as quickly as possible! And that gives information overload and puts normal life on hold...

Good morning all. It's now a week since my husband and I had the conversation of "do you think we should take A [our son who will be 10 in two weeks] to see a doctor about his needing to wee all the time?" He was diagnosed with diabetes at 10 pm last Sunday and gave himself his first insulin...