I don't mean any offence and I'm not having a go.....but do you really think being a diabetic is really an entitlement to have special treatment/classed as a disability at theme parks?
Diabetics should always carry food, so wouldn't have a problem in queueing up for a long period of time and everyone needs the loo sometime.
Also I think if I had been given 'special treatment' when going to a theme park with all my friends as a teenager, I would have felt even more different to them (i.e. in having to do injections/BG tests/eat regualrly etc).
I'm sorry, please don't take offence. I just don;t understand the reasons.
Hiya
As others have said this 'argument' has been done a few times but don't worry it is fine to have it brought up again.
As it stands at the moment the UK Children with Diabetes Advocacy Group (friends of mine including me) are in correspondence with Chessington. They took advice from DUK who told them that 80% of all diabetics were stable. Helllllllooooooooo where the hell did that come from. Now I can't speak to adults at all, I know nothing. I do know that 80% of type 1 children are unstable, that is the fault of the system here. All newly diagnosed children should be offered pumps or BB (MDI) and all should be taught carb counting from the off then the 80% would be a whole other ball game. The following is an excerpt from an email of a friend of mine only from the other day. I have changed all names. This is not a young child, this is an older child :
'We went to Alton Towers yesterday and I purchased an annual pass for
Jane and was given a free carer's annual pass. We were also given exit wristbands so we did not have to queue.
Jane was thrilled as were my other daughter and her friend who came
along too. That was the good bit, the downside was we had awful
levels. We arrived just before 11am after a nearly 2 hour car journey.
I told Jane to test thinking she would be slightly high....2.8!!!!
Treated then 2.4!!!!! Treated then 2.9!!!! Treated again then
4.3...this involved 2 glucojuice plus 2 tabs with Lucozade Sport...she
just would not come up! So after 1/2 an hour we got into Alton
Towers!!!! At lunch she was 13!!!!! Guess all that glucose finally
had an impact! Stayed on the high side for awhile...then decided to
eat tea on site...tested and 3.3....aggghhhh. Then at supper she was
2.0....have no idea what was happening! Jane did not feel low at any
time, she usually has quite a good hypo awareness..even changed meters
to make sure!!! This was with a reduced amount of insulin am and eve!!!
Jane is usually pretty stable so I reckon this goes to prove how vital
it was not to queue for any length of time as goodness only knows what
might have happened! She needed to wash her hands to make sure
readings were accurate and tested more often...it would have been a
nightmare if we had been in queues especially as we had such extreme
levels without Jane feeling it.
All in all it was a good day. I have to say I would rather have queued
without the need to test any day!!!!!
This shows that all parents would rather queue than their child having diabetes which shows that we are not after exit passes just because. The whole adrenaline and excitment makes levels do all sorts of things, high or low, there is not pattern. With the highs this child would have no doubt needed the loo at alot, I know my daughter does.
I hope this clears things up now for people that don't understand why.
Don't worry about asking, I ask if I don't understand.
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not that id appreciate it anyway lol, because like you I find it terrifying!! I tried to think "come on... you aren't going to die!", but then I remembered it's a possibility 