Recent Content by poshpaddy71

Good morning all, my 18 year old son is travelling abroad for the first time since he was diagnosed. In May we go to Ireland and I'm travelling with him and then in June he's off to Greece for his first lads holiday....Yikes!!!! Needless to say I won't sleep a wink when he goes to Greece Has...

Evening, my 17 year old son was diagnosed with type 1 last year and has night sweats...we need to replace his mattress, duvets and pillows. Has anyone got any recommendations please? Haven't a clue where to start. Many thanks

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Thanks Azure, he hasn't started driving lessons yet and we haven't even looked at the insurance part yet but I expect its going to be even higher for him. Dreading it!

Morning all, my son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes on the 25th Sept this year. He has applied for his DVLA provisional licence at the weekend but it said on the on-line application that it will need to be referred because he declared his diabetes. Has anyone any experience in this? Will...

Well so far tonight at 11pm he was 18.7 and took 3 insulin and did another reading at 1:10am and he was 16.7....my hubbie thinks he'll be ok just taking 5 of his normal evening insulin and not necessarily have any carbs....wish I understood all this

Thanks ladies....all the above has been taken abroad....fingers crossed it will be a good night for us both. Happy New Year and thanks for yer replies x

My 17 year son is off out tonight for a NYE party. It's his first night out since he was diagnosed in September and as much as I rather he didn't go i want him to lead a normal life. Any words of wisdom? I thought of getting in pizza for him to have when he gets in. I'd really appreciate any...