Hi all,
Just thought I needed to share this with you all...because I'm totally amazed..
After spending a good part of the last 2 years in and out of school..Regarding the fact that they seem to struggle with any piece of information about diabetes...I have to keep going over and over certain areas...there brains at some levels just dont receive the information or fail to apply any common sense...Anyway frustrating as it is for me..I will not give up till the acknowledge and learn.. The following has left me eating my words a little..which I am happy to do:
Nathan has decided this wednesday he would like to go on a school outing, to Preston Uni on a language enrichment day...This is the first time Nathan has wanted to go on a trip with school since his diagnosis....so as his mam..am punching the air with delight and pride...Good on you Nathan.. Although I had a few little niggles...just mothers worry..deep down I know he will be just fine..and fully prepared for every eventuality..With this in mind...on Friday afternoon I had a indepth phone conversation with the teacher, she phoned me to say the following:
She had been incontact with the Uni...too make them aware Nathan was diabetic... too make sure there was a clean private area avaliable for Nathan to wash his hands and do his injection...that was not a toilet..They do..and have several diabetics on campus.
To make me aware she is a trained and qualified first aider...
She has and is taking Nathans Health care plan with her and my phone number..she is also going to contact me discreetly a couple of times during the day to inform how nathan is..I did say that she dose'nt have to...but insisted she wanted to and it was no trouble.
She asked if there were any warning signs she needed to be aware of etc.
But basically to let me know he will be very well looked after on the day.
As a mam this means a great deal...and appreciate fully what she has done, in going out of her way to make prior arrangements, phoning me for additional information/knowledge of diabetes and the reassurance she has given me..I just wish other teachers and school would adopt a similar approach....Thank you Mrs Cooper..
Heidi
🙂
Just thought I needed to share this with you all...because I'm totally amazed..
After spending a good part of the last 2 years in and out of school..Regarding the fact that they seem to struggle with any piece of information about diabetes...I have to keep going over and over certain areas...there brains at some levels just dont receive the information or fail to apply any common sense...Anyway frustrating as it is for me..I will not give up till the acknowledge and learn.. The following has left me eating my words a little..which I am happy to do:
Nathan has decided this wednesday he would like to go on a school outing, to Preston Uni on a language enrichment day...This is the first time Nathan has wanted to go on a trip with school since his diagnosis....so as his mam..am punching the air with delight and pride...Good on you Nathan.. Although I had a few little niggles...just mothers worry..deep down I know he will be just fine..and fully prepared for every eventuality..With this in mind...on Friday afternoon I had a indepth phone conversation with the teacher, she phoned me to say the following:
She had been incontact with the Uni...too make them aware Nathan was diabetic... too make sure there was a clean private area avaliable for Nathan to wash his hands and do his injection...that was not a toilet..They do..and have several diabetics on campus.
To make me aware she is a trained and qualified first aider...
She has and is taking Nathans Health care plan with her and my phone number..she is also going to contact me discreetly a couple of times during the day to inform how nathan is..I did say that she dose'nt have to...but insisted she wanted to and it was no trouble.
She asked if there were any warning signs she needed to be aware of etc.
But basically to let me know he will be very well looked after on the day.
As a mam this means a great deal...and appreciate fully what she has done, in going out of her way to make prior arrangements, phoning me for additional information/knowledge of diabetes and the reassurance she has given me..I just wish other teachers and school would adopt a similar approach....Thank you Mrs Cooper..
Heidi
🙂
