My younger sister was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was 6 and was seriously ill with it when she first got diagnosed. She can't really remember how ill she was but it was touch and go at one point. She was controlling her diabetes very well (good blood scores ect.) until she moved up into secondary school. At the end of year 7, we noticed she had lost weight, we found out she hadn't been eating lunch and if she did then she wouldn't take insulin for it. We spoke to her calmly and asked what we could do to help. So she said about having packed lunch and promised she would start taking her insulin. She carried this through till the end of year seven and was fine, good scores all the way through the summer holiday. Then when she started back in year 8, her health quickly deteriorated and she told us, she couldn't be bothered to check her blood and forgot to do her insulin. At her latest doctor appointment, her Hba1c was over 130 and had to be sent off to the lab to get the actual number. We had 2 doctors, a nurse and her dietitian in the room and they discussed calmly what the best way to do things was. So she was put back on the nova mix in the morning so she wouldn't have to do insulin at school and changed her night insulin.
We spoke to the school and asked if someone could check that she had done her bloods as she was having trouble with it but were told that no one had time to run around after her to ensure she had done it, especially as she is now year 8 and old enough to take responsibility. Her nurse asked to go in and see her, as she normally goes into school every couple of weeks and checks on her and they told her that she was only allowed to visit in the 10 minute break (not enough time to go over everything and they didn't have a problem with her coming in the before) when we complained, we were told that they didn't want her missing the lesson (it was a library lesson, where they sit and read a book!). After the visit with the nurse she starting doing her insulin testing her bloods, doing everything she is suppose to be doing until last week when she has been making up he lunch time readings and missing days out. (She has done this before but stopped quite quickly when we found out). She was already been told by the doctor if her readings stay where they are (constantly above 10 for the last year, quite often she's higher than the meter) that her kidneys will fail within the next year and she already has problems with her feet when they get old but she doesn't care.
Just want some advice on what to do, the nurses and doctors don't really have any advice for us, just to keep an eye on her. We had thought about us doing her insulin but at the end she is we didn't want to take her independence away but it is very serious now.
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We spoke to the school and asked if someone could check that she had done her bloods as she was having trouble with it but were told that no one had time to run around after her to ensure she had done it, especially as she is now year 8 and old enough to take responsibility. Her nurse asked to go in and see her, as she normally goes into school every couple of weeks and checks on her and they told her that she was only allowed to visit in the 10 minute break (not enough time to go over everything and they didn't have a problem with her coming in the before) when we complained, we were told that they didn't want her missing the lesson (it was a library lesson, where they sit and read a book!). After the visit with the nurse she starting doing her insulin testing her bloods, doing everything she is suppose to be doing until last week when she has been making up he lunch time readings and missing days out. (She has done this before but stopped quite quickly when we found out). She was already been told by the doctor if her readings stay where they are (constantly above 10 for the last year, quite often she's higher than the meter) that her kidneys will fail within the next year and she already has problems with her feet when they get old but she doesn't care.
Just want some advice on what to do, the nurses and doctors don't really have any advice for us, just to keep an eye on her. We had thought about us doing her insulin but at the end she is we didn't want to take her independence away but it is very serious now.
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