Hi SarahQ, thanx for the post.
Here goes the rant...
I'm basically fed up about everything, having to do bms, carb count, take insulin and just generally having to put up with dabetes. Tomorow I have to go to my hospital to have a mid-way HBA1c, o yey! I think it's probs gone up to the higher 8s which is a tad diasponting. So now I'm going to be worried sick about the hospital having a go at me which always causes the whole family to get more stressed out than usual.
I'm sick of havong to go to school and put up with ignorant substitute teachers who don't know ANYTHING abou diabetes but acting like they do. Just the other week I went hypo in the school assembly whist all the children were talking. So i quickle had my glucose tablets which made my friend ask if I was ok, which then made a teacher come 'round and tell us both of for talking, made us both stand up for 10 minutes (all the while I was still hypo) AND come back at lunch to his office and made us write a letter of apology to my form teacher even though he knew that I was diabetic and that I was in fact hypo. This will now go on my school record and be viewed by my headteacher.
And last week I went on a school trip up to Wales for 5 days. So this meant that my parents and I had to fill out even more medical slips, have a meeting with the staff and pack an extra big bag full of diabetes supplies. We also had to write up extra pointers on what to do in extreme cases for my teachers. And this trip was PE based so we did all of these "extreme" sports. So, I have now been hypo: up a clift, in a cave, on top of a mountain, on top of a waterfall and in a river. HONESTLY!
Anyway... on to the pump.
I first heard about the pump from a nurse I met on one of these diabetes weekends. She said that if I asked my hospital then they could give me one. So I did at first they were very reluctant at the whole idear, but I kept on at them and finally the diabetes nurses went on a training course for the pump and after about a year they FINALLY gave one to me. It was really hard work at first and I mean REALLY hard work, doing 10-15 BMs a day, getting up in the night and doing them, filling out "pump sheets" which is when you have to fill out the food you have, what your BMs are, how much insulin you had etc. You also have to do alot of things to prove that you need the pump and that you acn cope with it. For Example: you have to go to carb counting lessons, have a "contiuous blood glucose monitor" fitted and see a physchologist for a few sessions a month. But it pays off greatly... in the end. :mrgreen:
