Just diagnosed

[Blythespirit]

I'm so pleased it all went well. XXXXX

 

[NatashaA]

I'm so pleased it all went well. XXXXX

We had our first consultant apointment just before Christmas (although the Consultant was off sick!!) and were told that Abigail's blood level was down from 17.8 on admitanace to 8.6. Is the HB1Ac thingy that I keep reading about??? I know ideally we are aiming for 7.5.

 

[Northerner]

We had our first consultant apointment just before Christmas (although the Consultant was off sick!!) and were told that Abigail's blood level was down from 17.8 on admitanace to 8.6. Is the HB1Ac thingy that I keep reading about??? I know ideally we are aiming for 7.5.

Could be, although 17.8 sounds extremely high for an HbA1c, it sounds more like a fingerprick number. Did they say it was a percentage?

 

[NatashaA]

Could be, although 17.8 sounds extremely high for an HbA1c, it sounds more like a fingerprick number. Did they say it was a percentage?

No just that it had gone down alot so we were obviously doing something right!

 

[NatashaA]

I have realised that we will be 12 weeks in this Thursday! I've got no idea were the last 3 months have disappered to. Isn't the phrase meant to be "Time flies when your having fun"? I think they ned to change this to "Time flies in a diabetes bubble!"

But all in all, we are getting there slowly. I am now able to discuss it with people without crying and we are back having days out and holidays. We have even managed a correction shot. So all in all, I'm really proud of us all especially a certain little girl who amazes me more each day.

We have an appointment with the consultant is a forthnights time, does anyone know the time scale for children having a pump?

 

[Ruth Goode]

It is natrual to feel like that at first, we felt the same but now we have accepted diabetes and do all we can do for Carly, its a hard work but rewarding to see her happy and bouncing around 🙂
Stay strong, keep positive and very big well done on bringing her level down!

 

[NatashaA]

Hospital appt

Just got back from finally meeting Abigail's consultant. All went well!!!

Her Hb1ac was 8.6!!

Her consultant said that she should teach some of the teenagers, not bad for a 6 year old. I'm so proud of her, how much she understands and the fact that she is just getting on with life🙂🙂🙂🙂

 

[Northerner]

Excellent news Natasha, really pleased for you and Abigail 🙂 Good for her!

 

[Me_suz]

I still think why her! She's fab and deals with it so much better than me. The analogy about the flight to Italy but ending up in holland is so very true. Life does go on, keep peddling x

 

[Me_suz]

Hi Natasha, I am new to this website but 1 year plus down the line from my daughters diagnosis. At the time I badly wanted to speak to people and gain as much information as possible for some reason I have only just discovered this site!!

It is a terrible life changing experience and it takes some time to come to terms with the diagnosis ( I still have days where I struggle) but it really does get easier with time. I am sure there will be testing times ahead but hang in there, you will reach the point where whilst diabetes is always there, it remains more in the background and you can start to get back to normal family life. Good luck.

This is so true!

 

[Me_suz]

Just got back from our first support group event. Well we survived and if I'm really honest it was quite a nice evening! Met a couple of other mums that kept me from being 'the new mum' and feeling like a gooseberry all evening, whilst Abs was straight in there with all the other children with no encouragement and she loved it all.🙂

That's brilliant, well done!