Hi - my beautiful 2 1/2 year old son was diagnosed T1 two weeks ago, with severe ketoacidosis. After 8 days gruelling time in hospital we are back and learning the hard way how to manage it all. For some time, he has had episodes of increasing anxiety (eg getting hysterical because we changed our duvet cover) and gets very upset and thrashes around. Everyone told me this was just "being two" but I knew it wasn't. He is by nature very peaceful and gentle. Now when he gets like this, I've noticed he is running high, and it reaches the point where he is obviously very very anxious and feeling out of control. When he is low, he says he is "too sad to do anything". On top of this, is the shock and trauma of the last couple of weeks, and of being so ill for quite a while. How do I help him learn ways to understand and manage the emotional/physical fallout and effects of his diabetes? When he is racing high, it is incredibly hard to reach him.
Vikki
Vikki