Wow! I think is all I say, I discovered Tuesday that I actually had no idea what Type 1 diabetes was and the affect it has on your life.
I will be honest, I knew it had something to do with sugar, but thought you just checked your blood sugar several times a day and then give yourself some insulin!! Carb counting??? I’d never heard of it!!
My story:-
Looking back, I think my little girl had been poorly for a while (I feel really bad) around October time she started with the excessive drinking, we are also waiting for a autism assessment so initially put it down to another obsession ( she likes twiddling and focuses on that all the time) and she had started being wet at night.
I had noticed she was getting moody but just put it down to growing up! Then on 3rd December she was in a dance show, she looked so tired, moody, just kept shouting at me and telling me to shut up, I actually told her off!!!
Then that week, she was so tired coming home from school and falling asleep, she would sleep at night for 12 hours and she was still looking exhausted In the morning! She was even fallen asleep in the bath and this was when I really noticed the weight loss, which seemed to come on rapidly, all of a sudden I could feel her bones, she has always been well built and I could see her shoulder blades, ribs and spine.
I felt something wasn’t right so made a doctors appointment, I think deep down I thought she might of had diabetes, but what happened next was not what I was expecting!!
I thought we’d go to the docs and they would send us for some blood tests, we’d go back after a week and then been referred!!!
But that didn’t happen, the doctor did various test and finally did a blood sugar finger prick that came back at 33! He said We had to go straight to hospital and did us a referral letter, I broke down in his office, I think it was the shock.
We got to the hospital, the doctor is telling me it’s a good job I didn’t leave it any longer!! Her ketones were above 6. They are putting cannulas in and looking for a bed in HDU!! I feel like I’m in a whirl wind, and my little girl is shouting for food and saying she isn’t poorly!!
We were admitted and she was on a drip and insulin drip!
This was Tuesday, Wednesday is when it all started, the diabetic nurse is going through all the kit, explaining carb counting and in practising the insulin injections on a teddy!! Then come tea time I started the counting!!
But what happened Thursday was the best and when I realised my little girl must had been poorly for a while! She was singing jumping around just being lovely like she always was, looking back at my pictures over the last few months, she does look washed out in them.
So we came home on Friday and had our first night at home, all went well, just trying to teach the grandparents how to do it all!!
The doctor is a family friend and he telephoned my father in law on Thursday to see how she was doing and he said in all his years with practicing (must be 25 + years) he has never had a child in his surgery presenting with type 1 diabetes symptoms!
I must say that my little girl is now really really hungry, as soon as she has eaten she is planning her next meal!!!
I will be honest, I knew it had something to do with sugar, but thought you just checked your blood sugar several times a day and then give yourself some insulin!! Carb counting??? I’d never heard of it!!
My story:-
Looking back, I think my little girl had been poorly for a while (I feel really bad) around October time she started with the excessive drinking, we are also waiting for a autism assessment so initially put it down to another obsession ( she likes twiddling and focuses on that all the time) and she had started being wet at night.
I had noticed she was getting moody but just put it down to growing up! Then on 3rd December she was in a dance show, she looked so tired, moody, just kept shouting at me and telling me to shut up, I actually told her off!!!
Then that week, she was so tired coming home from school and falling asleep, she would sleep at night for 12 hours and she was still looking exhausted In the morning! She was even fallen asleep in the bath and this was when I really noticed the weight loss, which seemed to come on rapidly, all of a sudden I could feel her bones, she has always been well built and I could see her shoulder blades, ribs and spine.
I felt something wasn’t right so made a doctors appointment, I think deep down I thought she might of had diabetes, but what happened next was not what I was expecting!!
I thought we’d go to the docs and they would send us for some blood tests, we’d go back after a week and then been referred!!!
But that didn’t happen, the doctor did various test and finally did a blood sugar finger prick that came back at 33! He said We had to go straight to hospital and did us a referral letter, I broke down in his office, I think it was the shock.
We got to the hospital, the doctor is telling me it’s a good job I didn’t leave it any longer!! Her ketones were above 6. They are putting cannulas in and looking for a bed in HDU!! I feel like I’m in a whirl wind, and my little girl is shouting for food and saying she isn’t poorly!!
We were admitted and she was on a drip and insulin drip!
This was Tuesday, Wednesday is when it all started, the diabetic nurse is going through all the kit, explaining carb counting and in practising the insulin injections on a teddy!! Then come tea time I started the counting!!
But what happened Thursday was the best and when I realised my little girl must had been poorly for a while! She was singing jumping around just being lovely like she always was, looking back at my pictures over the last few months, she does look washed out in them.
So we came home on Friday and had our first night at home, all went well, just trying to teach the grandparents how to do it all!!
The doctor is a family friend and he telephoned my father in law on Thursday to see how she was doing and he said in all his years with practicing (must be 25 + years) he has never had a child in his surgery presenting with type 1 diabetes symptoms!
I must say that my little girl is now really really hungry, as soon as she has eaten she is planning her next meal!!!
