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<blockquote data-quote="donnellysdogs" data-source="post: 658761" data-attributes="member: 17713"><p>Hi Joe's Mum</p><p></p><p>It would be a great idea to be able to find out if your son can meet up with the other T1 that he met in hospital. He would definitely feel as if he is not the only person with this disease.</p><p></p><p>Sport is always a harder balance to get, and of course children have different activitys at different times.</p><p>I know of a young girl using a pump and how worried her mum was when she was going to do a cross country run with her school friends to tey and ensure the daughter didnt go too high or too low. This same daughter had exceptionally good opportunity from her hospital to go on the over night camp stays. Again a worrying time for the parents but giving her child a time to meet up with others that were on injections or pumps. </p><p></p><p>The "tantrums" I suspect are frustration and emotions towards his new changes in his life. As teenagers or adults it is still **** tough to have to do something everytime you get up, go to bed, or sleep. Its tough. As a parent you want to protect and encourage your child but unless you are actually diabetic yourself you are still different to how we are.</p><p></p><p>Even after 20 years with hubby, only last year I told him how it irritated me that I would cook the meal, serve it and still had to do a blood test and bolus before I ate. He now does the majority of the cooking and serves me 1st and lets me have that time to do my test and bolus.</p><p></p><p>And then my mum... 30 years of occasionsl visits, but on every visit, every meal asking if I am high or low. Well it took 30 years to tell her how irritating that was.</p><p></p><p>Theres load more examples of irritation I could give but at some point I would ask your son how he actually feels and if you are doing anything that irritates him ie telling him to test, perhaps when he knows he has to test etc... </p><p></p><p>I hope this will bump up to get some more responses.</p><p></p><p>Definitely follow through with hospital friend and meeting youngsters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donnellysdogs, post: 658761, member: 17713"] Hi Joe's Mum It would be a great idea to be able to find out if your son can meet up with the other T1 that he met in hospital. He would definitely feel as if he is not the only person with this disease. Sport is always a harder balance to get, and of course children have different activitys at different times. I know of a young girl using a pump and how worried her mum was when she was going to do a cross country run with her school friends to tey and ensure the daughter didnt go too high or too low. This same daughter had exceptionally good opportunity from her hospital to go on the over night camp stays. Again a worrying time for the parents but giving her child a time to meet up with others that were on injections or pumps. The "tantrums" I suspect are frustration and emotions towards his new changes in his life. As teenagers or adults it is still **** tough to have to do something everytime you get up, go to bed, or sleep. Its tough. As a parent you want to protect and encourage your child but unless you are actually diabetic yourself you are still different to how we are. Even after 20 years with hubby, only last year I told him how it irritated me that I would cook the meal, serve it and still had to do a blood test and bolus before I ate. He now does the majority of the cooking and serves me 1st and lets me have that time to do my test and bolus. And then my mum... 30 years of occasionsl visits, but on every visit, every meal asking if I am high or low. Well it took 30 years to tell her how irritating that was. Theres load more examples of irritation I could give but at some point I would ask your son how he actually feels and if you are doing anything that irritates him ie telling him to test, perhaps when he knows he has to test etc... I hope this will bump up to get some more responses. Definitely follow through with hospital friend and meeting youngsters. [/QUOTE]
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