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I’m new to this forum so just wanted to reach out as i don’t know any other type one parents of small children and wondered how it is affecting them. For myself, today i had a disabling low in a local supermarket with both of my children with me (5 and 2). I felt no signals of a low sugar coming on Until i was at the checkout, my legs giving Way repeated and i fell to the floor in front of a shop full of people, to my surprise In the background of my blurred vision and blackout my almost 5 year old was screaming to the entire shop that i was a diabetic and that i needed sugar, he then ran off into the shop and grabbed me a big bottle of Lucozade and a pack of jelly sweets and started shoving them in my mouth.
I literally don’t know what would have happened had he not been there and saved me, I feel so emotional about the whole thing and feel so proud of him but also so terribly guilty that i’m a terrible parent and that he is too small to have such a responsibility as he did today. He never should have been put in that position and he told me afterwards that he thought i was going to die and it scared him.
To summarise i wanted to see if there were any others out there that have hd similar experiences and how you felt about how your diabetes is affecting your children mentally.
Sorry for the long post, really interested to hear some replies.
Thanks
I literally don’t know what would have happened had he not been there and saved me, I feel so emotional about the whole thing and feel so proud of him but also so terribly guilty that i’m a terrible parent and that he is too small to have such a responsibility as he did today. He never should have been put in that position and he told me afterwards that he thought i was going to die and it scared him.
To summarise i wanted to see if there were any others out there that have hd similar experiences and how you felt about how your diabetes is affecting your children mentally.
Sorry for the long post, really interested to hear some replies.
Thanks