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<blockquote data-quote="endocrinegremlin" data-source="post: 2043065" data-attributes="member: 196900"><p>I was diagnosed age 6 in 97 so there were more people aware by the time I was diagnosed and I was sent home with a blood kid. They were not that common on the NHS for those with good control who didn't ask questions though. Both my aunt and mum (at that time t1 33 & 21 years respectively) were stunned at my new gadget and demanded one too. </p><p></p><p>I was sent home within days because of mum. Because of that I got a sort of crash course in 'what you half listened to before is now VERY IMPORTANT'. I had helped mum with hypos before and such. I didn't need to make the change to sugar free drinks as that is all we had. I was mostly miffed I had to take different insulin from mum. </p><p></p><p>School was horrible. I had to eat a milkyway before gym eat week and was hated for it. My first in class hypo led me to being put on the teacher's seat at her desk to eat digestives while she converted our usual schedule into storytime. She sat on a regular seat and my classmates glared at me from the floor. The diabetes, in a way, was the easy part. People were hard. I was offered camps to go and hang out with other type one kids but I was painfully shy and I hated playing sport. Being wrapped with strangers to do things that might make me hypo was hell to me. It was nice to know they existed though. I was lucky in that I am a family of type ones. My mum and aunt are on one side and when I was in my late twenties their brother joined us. My father's brother was type one too. I wasn't the odd one out, I guess and that helped. Still, it is always hard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="endocrinegremlin, post: 2043065, member: 196900"] I was diagnosed age 6 in 97 so there were more people aware by the time I was diagnosed and I was sent home with a blood kid. They were not that common on the NHS for those with good control who didn't ask questions though. Both my aunt and mum (at that time t1 33 & 21 years respectively) were stunned at my new gadget and demanded one too. I was sent home within days because of mum. Because of that I got a sort of crash course in 'what you half listened to before is now VERY IMPORTANT'. I had helped mum with hypos before and such. I didn't need to make the change to sugar free drinks as that is all we had. I was mostly miffed I had to take different insulin from mum. School was horrible. I had to eat a milkyway before gym eat week and was hated for it. My first in class hypo led me to being put on the teacher's seat at her desk to eat digestives while she converted our usual schedule into storytime. She sat on a regular seat and my classmates glared at me from the floor. The diabetes, in a way, was the easy part. People were hard. I was offered camps to go and hang out with other type one kids but I was painfully shy and I hated playing sport. Being wrapped with strangers to do things that might make me hypo was hell to me. It was nice to know they existed though. I was lucky in that I am a family of type ones. My mum and aunt are on one side and when I was in my late twenties their brother joined us. My father's brother was type one too. I wasn't the odd one out, I guess and that helped. Still, it is always hard. [/QUOTE]
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