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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SophiaW" data-source="post: 99819" data-attributes="member: 13451">I stay with my daughter for many of the activities she does out of school because in addition to her diabetes she also has other disabilities which make her less independent or as responsible as her peers. Although she physically can do the injections herself she is not yet confident enough to do it when she's on her own. She also seems to have lost some hypo awareness and if she's having fun she simply keeps going without recognising the signs. Most times I will identify she's hypo before she realises it herself. I have also found that some club organisers are very confident to learn about diabetes and take on the responsibility but other organisers seem afraid and unsure. When it is the latter I don't feel confident leaving Jess alone in their care and I also feel it's unfair on the organiser if they don't feel comfortable about the responsibility. Anything involving sport I tend to stay as this is when she's prone to going hypo.Jess loves having me around as she has not reached the age or stage where she feels having mum around is uncool. But even still I try to blend in as best I can as I want to avoid anyone passing a comment that I'm simply there because Jess has something "wrong" with her. For Brownies I have volunteered as a parent helper, so although my main objective is to be there to keep an eye on her diabetes it would appear from an outsider's point of view that I'm simply a volunteer helper for all the children and not there for any other particular reason. I do a similar thing with her tennis lessons where I help the tennis coach with teaching all the children in the lesson. This means that I can keep an eye on Jess and deal with a hypo if it happens. I hope that by the time she no longer wants me to be there she will have taken over the responsibility of managing her diabetes and be more independent and aware once again of hypo symptoms. When our children are not yet independent in managing their diabetes I think we as parents have to be very resourceful, be a positive thinker, and have good problem solving abilities to make things work as smoothly as possible and to avoid telling our children they can't do something because of their diabetes. I have had to become much more involved as a volunteer helper, it's been great fun actually and probably something I would have missed out on had it not been for Jess's T1. Some other things I've had to learn is to be a good communicator and learn alot about Diabetes so that I can explain it well to teachers and club leaders. I've also learnt a lot about food label reading and nutrition.</blockquote>

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