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<blockquote data-quote="MeiChanski" data-source="post: 2026689" data-attributes="member: 503481"><p>Hello I am speaking for my mother and myself, I was diagnosed at the age of 8 and not as young as your little one. I don't think I grieved, but more so I did not know what was happening. I was tired, very ill and just wanted to go to school. As for my mother, she took it hard and she was in tears through the whole diagnosis process and she was angry because the GP at that time, had the audacity to tell my mother that "your daughter is fine", when my mother said "she is losing weight, not eating anything and she has been vomiting". When I was in hospital for DKA, I said to my mum in my weak tired voice "i'm going to be okay". </p><p></p><p>When I got to my teenager years, thats when the rebellion happened and as a result in and out of hospital for 3 years for DKA.</p><p>I hope with the right team and education, along with the right insulin and equipment, your daughter and you cope well and work as a team to fight hypos, hypers, good and bad days. There are diabetes specialised therapists, I think you might have to ask to be referred in times of desperate help. When diabetes is in good control, it's not too bad and its like we are friends with it. (like we signed an UN agreement)<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite39" alt=":hilarious:" title="Hilarious :hilarious:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":hilarious:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MeiChanski, post: 2026689, member: 503481"] Hello I am speaking for my mother and myself, I was diagnosed at the age of 8 and not as young as your little one. I don't think I grieved, but more so I did not know what was happening. I was tired, very ill and just wanted to go to school. As for my mother, she took it hard and she was in tears through the whole diagnosis process and she was angry because the GP at that time, had the audacity to tell my mother that "your daughter is fine", when my mother said "she is losing weight, not eating anything and she has been vomiting". When I was in hospital for DKA, I said to my mum in my weak tired voice "i'm going to be okay". When I got to my teenager years, thats when the rebellion happened and as a result in and out of hospital for 3 years for DKA. I hope with the right team and education, along with the right insulin and equipment, your daughter and you cope well and work as a team to fight hypos, hypers, good and bad days. There are diabetes specialised therapists, I think you might have to ask to be referred in times of desperate help. When diabetes is in good control, it's not too bad and its like we are friends with it. (like we signed an UN agreement):hilarious: [/QUOTE]
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