Please tell me you get it too! Feeling fed up and lonely X

conniecar · Aug 5, 2016

Jaylee said:
Nope. I have no memories of enforced hypo in a controlled environment. Just a "Peter & Jane" have diabetes style book with the boy getting into all sorts of typical D scrapes, while the girl was doc's little pet..
Oh, and told to "eat something if you feel funny." That's it.
My diabetes "care package" when I went back to school was souly in the hands (or pockets.) of an 8 year old.. Lol Orange was bad, blue was good.

Oh that's made me laugh! Yes, go back to school with sandwiches ( two thirds of a slice of bread ) and an apple. The best bit was I had to sit on my own, as the rest of the school had dinners and I was seen as a corrupting influence. That made me dead popular, that and wearing and SOS necklace with all my details in, if I had to unscrew it 50 times a day to show everyone the little bit of concertina'd paper.....I was also assigned a minder ( also aged 7 ) to monitor behaviour ( end of any frivolous comments from me, as she'd run up to the dinner lady demanding Dextrose tablets if I was the least bit zany.) Things are much better now eh?

Jaylee · Aug 6, 2016

conniecar said:
Oh that's made me laugh! Yes, go back to school with sandwiches ( two thirds of a slice of bread ) and an apple. The best bit was I had to sit on my own, as the rest of the school had dinners and I was seen as a corrupting influence. That made me dead popular, that and wearing and SOS necklace with all my details in, if I had to unscrew it 50 times a day to show everyone the little bit of concertina'd paper.....I was also assigned a minder ( also aged 7 ) to monitor behaviour ( end of any frivolous comments from me, as she'd run up to the dinner lady demanding Dextrose tablets if I was the least bit zany.) Things are much better now eh?

Lol, I remember the "SOS talisman"?? I was made to wear it but uniform dictated it stayed under my shirt...
It wasn't until I went to college the "bad boy" rumour went about regarding the "drugs".. This kind of came out a number of years later on Facebook that I was seen as the "rebel", cropping up again at a reunion...
It all started when one person caught me injecting in a changing room.. (A Surrey dance school.)

Fair play to your "monitor". The poor kid was doing the right thing.. Hell of a responsibility for a non D child though...

conniecar · Aug 8, 2016

My SOS talisman went rusty so my mum painted the back with nail varnish, as it was leaving big orange marks everywhere

I suppose my 'monitor ' had the best intentions...... I remember lying at school and saying I 'felt funny' because I wanted to go home. Sadly when my monitor escorted me home ( this was the 70's, nothing dangerous about an 8 year old walking home with a seemingly hypo classmate? ) and I discovered my mum was out, I had to perform amateur dramatics as she'd been instructed to take me back. This involved me doing violent shaking, pointing at my mouth and mumbling 'sugar, I need it.' I also needed to watch Why Don't You and not go back to school. I'm not proud but being diabetic also got me out of cross country a few times

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