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<blockquote data-quote="Fairygodmother" data-source="post: 2514970" data-attributes="member: 68789"><p>I was 20 when I was diagnosed Zhnyaka, and very very glad that I was old enough to manage my own care, although the lax, or unaware approach of medics to symptoms of T1 that preceded diagnosis meant that I was lucky to be blue lighted to a hospital just in time.</p><p>My mother had no idea about science; she described any medicine as ‘the blue pills’ or ‘the pink liquid’, and doses were arbitrary whatever instructions were given. A swig, a few, depending on how she felt. If my sister or I were prescribed medications she always wanted to share some.</p><p>She also found it difficult to care for others. When DKA became worse for me she, too, took to her bed. (I was briefly at home from Uni for the Christmas break.). Luckily, she called a doctor in when the sound of my attempts to breathe penetrated two walls and a corridor.</p><p>Looking back, it’s clear that she needed help. At the time, after growing up with her as the only carer, and spending a lot of our youth at a subsidised boarding school, neither my sister nor I realised how very mentally different she was from ‘normal’ people. We knew she was different, but we didn’t know that many other families.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fairygodmother, post: 2514970, member: 68789"] I was 20 when I was diagnosed Zhnyaka, and very very glad that I was old enough to manage my own care, although the lax, or unaware approach of medics to symptoms of T1 that preceded diagnosis meant that I was lucky to be blue lighted to a hospital just in time. My mother had no idea about science; she described any medicine as ‘the blue pills’ or ‘the pink liquid’, and doses were arbitrary whatever instructions were given. A swig, a few, depending on how she felt. If my sister or I were prescribed medications she always wanted to share some. She also found it difficult to care for others. When DKA became worse for me she, too, took to her bed. (I was briefly at home from Uni for the Christmas break.). Luckily, she called a doctor in when the sound of my attempts to breathe penetrated two walls and a corridor. Looking back, it’s clear that she needed help. At the time, after growing up with her as the only carer, and spending a lot of our youth at a subsidised boarding school, neither my sister nor I realised how very mentally different she was from ‘normal’ people. We knew she was different, but we didn’t know that many other families. [/QUOTE]
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