hale710
Well-Known Member
I've mentioned a few times in previous comments that I have a cousin who is T1. When I was diagnosed she avoided me like the plague, essentially because i have control now and she doesn't. But yesterday I had dinner with her and my aunt and we had a long chat about things and it seems she wants to get some help finally!
She was diagnosed at 11 and had full support from the clinic then. My aunt is a dietician and so knows all the ins and outs of carb counting and that side of things. But it would appear the clinic basically dropped her when she turned 16 and she hasnt had much to do with them since (she's 22 now)
She's trying to get an appointment with the consultant and the clinic said she would receive a letter, 4 weeks later shes still waiting for the letter. I was shocked to discover her readings range between 7 - 25 on any one day! :shock: We share the same DSN, but where she checks in with me regularly to see I'm coping fine, my cousin hasnt seen or heard from her in 2 years. She doesnt even have contact details for her. I gave them to her last night and shes going to call today. The DSN is fab and so I'm hopefully she'll get my cousin sorted and in to see the consultant asap
Ive also told her to read think like a pancreas because its helped me loads! and got her to download a BG monitoring app so she can start to look for patterns.
She is basically lazy, I'm fairly certain her basal is all wrong (most likely too low) but wont test through the night. So i've explained to my aunt how to test the basal rate overnight and my cousin is going to go back home for a few days so my aunt can get up in the night to check all of that and see what that shows up. :roll:
She also uses the excuse that her work day is inconsistent and so she doesnt know when she'll get a break. she says she sometimes gets 10 minutes off and its a choice between testing and eating then she'll eat. that shocked me as testing and eating go hand in hand for me!
I don't know how else to help her. The fact that she's finally opened up about it 4 months after i was diagnosed is great so I dont really want to bombard her and look like im trying to be a know it all, but im fairly confident i DO know more than her. and i want her to have a similar level of control as I'm managing to achieve.
does any one have any ideas on how to ease her into it all?
She was diagnosed at 11 and had full support from the clinic then. My aunt is a dietician and so knows all the ins and outs of carb counting and that side of things. But it would appear the clinic basically dropped her when she turned 16 and she hasnt had much to do with them since (she's 22 now)
She's trying to get an appointment with the consultant and the clinic said she would receive a letter, 4 weeks later shes still waiting for the letter. I was shocked to discover her readings range between 7 - 25 on any one day! :shock: We share the same DSN, but where she checks in with me regularly to see I'm coping fine, my cousin hasnt seen or heard from her in 2 years. She doesnt even have contact details for her. I gave them to her last night and shes going to call today. The DSN is fab and so I'm hopefully she'll get my cousin sorted and in to see the consultant asap
Ive also told her to read think like a pancreas because its helped me loads! and got her to download a BG monitoring app so she can start to look for patterns.
She is basically lazy, I'm fairly certain her basal is all wrong (most likely too low) but wont test through the night. So i've explained to my aunt how to test the basal rate overnight and my cousin is going to go back home for a few days so my aunt can get up in the night to check all of that and see what that shows up. :roll:
She also uses the excuse that her work day is inconsistent and so she doesnt know when she'll get a break. she says she sometimes gets 10 minutes off and its a choice between testing and eating then she'll eat. that shocked me as testing and eating go hand in hand for me!
I don't know how else to help her. The fact that she's finally opened up about it 4 months after i was diagnosed is great so I dont really want to bombard her and look like im trying to be a know it all, but im fairly confident i DO know more than her. and i want her to have a similar level of control as I'm managing to achieve.
does any one have any ideas on how to ease her into it all?
