Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Nearly nine years after our son Louis was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, it?s still painful to recall how it took hold of him.
It was the hot summer of 2003 and the family were on holiday on the Isle of Wight.
Temperatures had been in the 90s for a couple of weeks, so we thought little of the fact that four-year-old Louis seemed to be drinking a lot of water.
What made us really concerned was the sudden realisation he?d lost a lot of weight ? and that his energy levels were extremely low.
A normally fit, bouncy boy, he could barely summon the energy to walk the few hundred yards to the beach.
He seemed to be perpetually thirsty and also needed to urinate frequently ? classic signs of diabetes, though we were totally unaware of that.
As soon as we got home to Cambridge, we took Louis to our GP, who tested his blood sugar.
Suspecting type 1 diabetes, he sent us straight to Addenbrooke?s hospital, where doctors confirmed the diagnosis.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...ics-sleep-safely-night.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
I do wish they would show a more representative picture of someone injecting - how many people inject into the front of their arm like that with a syringe these days?
It was the hot summer of 2003 and the family were on holiday on the Isle of Wight.
Temperatures had been in the 90s for a couple of weeks, so we thought little of the fact that four-year-old Louis seemed to be drinking a lot of water.
What made us really concerned was the sudden realisation he?d lost a lot of weight ? and that his energy levels were extremely low.
A normally fit, bouncy boy, he could barely summon the energy to walk the few hundred yards to the beach.
He seemed to be perpetually thirsty and also needed to urinate frequently ? classic signs of diabetes, though we were totally unaware of that.
As soon as we got home to Cambridge, we took Louis to our GP, who tested his blood sugar.
Suspecting type 1 diabetes, he sent us straight to Addenbrooke?s hospital, where doctors confirmed the diagnosis.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...ics-sleep-safely-night.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
I do wish they would show a more representative picture of someone injecting - how many people inject into the front of their arm like that with a syringe these days?