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@LyndsayM.
I really am not the one for advice about going back to work as I was back there about an hour after my first insulin shot, despite hysterical nurses in the clinic wanting to hospitalise me there and then. (Don't actually blame them, with an Hba1c of 109, fasting bloods of 20, ketones at 5.4 and weight having steadily gone down) however, having impeccable proof with me that it had been like that for a while, well the blood sugars at least - that was my first ever ketone reading, and I, um, didn't actually feel unwell, the consultant let me out with a million and one promises of what to do over the next week and when to present myself at A & E if need be..
However, I was just about to go on half term, so got a week or so to get my head around it all and have various plans in places for me being around a lot of power tools with 16 - 25 year old students with an interesting array of disabilities. They just see diabetes as my "thing" and don't bat an eyelid at anything I may do. They watch out for that they call my "meds" bag, know where my hypo treatments are, who to call over to deal with me if need be, and if I'm being dafter than usual will instruct me to test my blood sugars.
My immediate colleagues were all fantastic, and watch out for me carefully. HR and line managers, I think, concluded I was more than capable of dealing with it, and didn't really seem interested, partly because I'd had a lot of training prior to this for supporting students with T1. Plus, I'd had two and a half years of being treated as a mis-diagnosed T2, and had been suspecting this was the case for a good six months, so I'd probably had less of a shock than most people. In fact, with both my diagnosis, whilst I think about it, I had hysterical medical teams not understanding why I was still on my feet, and I didn't really realise how ill I'd been feeling until I wasn't feeling ill again.
I certainly didn't hypo for the first month or so, due to the fixed doses I was on which was about getting the levels right, and have been lucky enough to only have mild easily treatable ones ever since. Well, apart from the experimental "Let's see if I've got this right for chips" mishap... (The can of coke did need using before it went out of date.)