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2 year anniversary

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Hi all,
It's Alex's 2 year anniversary today and he wants to 'celebrate'. He didnt want to last year - so wasnt sure what he would do about it this year. I have bought him a book (the billionaire kid) and a new top and will take him out for a meal tonight - it does seem strange 'celebrating' a day like this though...Bev x
 
I know how you feel Bev, but accepting that he has this, celebrate how far you have come in dealing with it - I remember how things were when you first came here looking for help, and now you are a very experienced and active 'helper' yourself! 🙂 The fact that Alex wants to do something this year speaks volumes! Thumb your noses at Diabetes today, and enjoy yourselves, Alex has coped incredibly well and we are all proud of him :D
 
Hi Bev know the weird feeling of celebrating got my 2 year anniversary in Feb not sure if i will do anything as last year i did and i did'nt enjoy it.Hope you have a lovely meal tonight big hugs to Alex if my son is anything like your at his age i will be a very very proud mummy.x
 
Hey Alex (and Bev)..hope you have a fantastic night tonight and I bet you look fabulous in that new top!! How is that 6 pack coming along?
 
i hope you both have a lovely night bev 🙂
 
We've never "celebrated" it, but we did wonder whether we should have. On Carol's first anniversary we happend to be at clinic and when I mentioned it to the DSN, she completely ignored it. Carol isn't bothered either way.

My friend celebrated her daughter's first one with a ringdoughnut and one candle in it.

Have a great night out tonight🙂
 
After speaking with other parents on the list it seems that lots of children do celebrate it - but it is done because the child has managed to get through another tough year and the celebration is to also say thankyou to them for coping so well - so I have just been out and bought some more clothes, and itunes voucher and a card (not easy to find a card for this sort of thing so I got a dog saying 'high five' ...he he ).

It was day 13 of Alex being ill that I took him to the walk-in-centre and was told that he was so ill that if I had left it another few hours things would have been very different....all due to our GP telling me this was a virus and not to worry that he was 'drinking for England' - this was a good sign as he wasnt dehydrated.......yeh right - he was just in DKA - so no worries then...

Someone explained that watching our children play, laugh, and carry on with life is what we should be celebrating and it made me think just how much our little ones have to cope with and how little their friends actually *know* about how hard their lives are dealing with this awful condition....Last night Alex and myself were awake 3 times due to unusual hypo's and he still gets up in the morning with a huge smile on his face ready for the day, and that takes strength of character and a strong backbone....a lot like all of you lovely adults on here who do all this on your own - so a big 'well done' from me for coping with this exhausting condition - your all superstars.🙂Bev
 
bev said:
It was day 13 of Alex being ill that I took him to the walk-in-centre and was told that he was so ill that if I had left it another few hours things would have been very different....all due to our GP telling me this was a virus and not to worry that he was 'drinking for England' - this was a good sign as he wasnt dehydrated.......yeh right - he was just in DKA - so no worries then...
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Oh my goodness, we were very lucky too in two ways. Carol was not poorly at all, but she was telling me about drinking lots and trousers suddenly being too big round the waist. We suspected diabetes, googled it. But nowhere did it say that is was lifethreatening and you should go to hospital immediately. By Saturday, she was feeling tired, so we rang NHS direct at 2pm, telling them we suspected diabetes. They didn't return our call till 12.30am Sunday morning, telling us to let her drink as much as she liked on Sunday and to take her to the GP on Monday. So Monday morning I rang GP, but didn't get an appointment till 4pm. Carol INSISTED there was nothing wrong and she wanted to go to school. To think what could have happend!!!!😱
The GP knew immediately what was wrong and even asked me, what I thought it might be. I think he must have seen in my face that I suspected something serious. By then I still didn't really appreciate how serious this all was.😱 Anyway, by 8pm we were on the children's ward and by 9pm the specialist came to see us.(in jeans and jumper, he's normally in a suit). Carol was never on a drip either. We were told we caught it very early.

So maybe we should have celebrated the fact that we caught it early and prevented Carol from being seriously poorly.
 
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