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Carol F

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My 8 year old son was diagnosed on Thursday.. we spent Thursday and Friday in the new childrens hospital in Glasgow... discharged last night and today has been our first day carb counting and taking insulin... So glad there is this group...something tells me we might have some questions as we progress our new learning curve... i must say the consultant/diabetes nurses and dietitian in Glasgow were fantastic. They filled me with so much information in 36 hours... i've surprised myself with how much i have retained...
All good today.. injections breakfast.. our consultant phoned us at home for our readings (how good is that).. then off for an hours swim. Back for insulin and lunch. Cameron got taken out with dad for a treat at the shops for doing so well whilst i did the housework. Then blood sugars insulin and dinner...
The new routine is the same as our normal routine just the added extra's of blood sugar and injection...
A big sigh of relief that we have navigated day 1...
no doubt i'll be reading your tales and keeping you abreast of ours.
Thanks for taking the time to read - Carol x
 
Hi and welcome
 
Welcome aboard 🙂 It's a big learning curve that's for sure but it becomes automatic really quickly. How did Cameron come to be diagnosed?
 
Welcome to the forum 🙂 You will learn something new nearly every day. Well done for joining this forum so quickly & ask away. 🙂
 
Cameron started with loads of toilet trips and drinking alot of water...i was hoping for a urinary tract infection but my gut was telling me diabetes...
otherwise healthy and sporty... just came on in the last few weeks
 
Oh bless! is he doing his own jabs yet? (you calculate and dial em up, or supervise him LOL)

You will have a lot of ups and downs - more than adults do and we have more than enough already - so whenever you need to just scream or cry - just do it Carol. If you need a rant though - feel free to do so on the forum, please! (You see, it's OK to do that - we ALL understand perfectly!)

And you could do with investing in this book - 'Type I diabetes in children adolescents and young adults' by Ragnar Hanas. Written for people just like you and in fact, useful at any age!
 
Thanks..yes he is doing his own blood sugar and injections.. whilst we watch on.. wee trouper..and after only 2 days. Starting as we mean to go on..keeping to his regular routine with sports etc..when school returns he will need to do it on his own anyway so best he's used to it
 
Right - your DSN will need to talk to school to make sure they have all the right safeguards and properly trained people etc in place and also recognise if he sticks his hand up and says he feels hypo - it's an emergency! and a procedure must be in place so he can go and test IMMEDIATELY and have access to his hypo remedies without delay.

They also need a place to keep duplicates of fast acting pens, insulin and needles and a test meter and strips for the days when he's a drip and forgets his, or loses them or whatever.

I believe DUK have a pack for parents and so do JDRF - ask!
 
Ok...goodness, we've got the summer to organise ourselves and when school goes back we'll need to organise his teachers. Luckly he goes to a small school so i don't envisage any problems there. X
 
Welcome to the forum. You've come to the right place, so just ask (or rant) away. :D
 
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