Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
When your kids are tiny you?re around them for most of the time, but as they get older they spend more and more of their life away from you. First it?s a couple a hours at nursery once or twice a week, then it?s school every weekday until eventually ? gulp ? they leave the nest permanently to go off to university or whatever.
At those moments where they start being away from you more, it?s inevitable that you start worrying about them. You?re not there to protect them and frankly anything might be happening to them. What if they get abducted by aliens while on a sleepover at their friend?s house? What if a zombie apocalypse breaks out while they?re playing at the local park? What if they?re on a school trip to the British Museum, and one of the statues turns out to be a Weeping Angel like on Doctor Who?
Of course, some fears are more realistic than that, and a couple of things make me genuinely worry for Joe?s and Tom?s safety. My two big worries are, one, they get hit by a car and, two, something goes wrong with their diabetes.
http://blogs.diabetes.org.uk/?p=2537
At those moments where they start being away from you more, it?s inevitable that you start worrying about them. You?re not there to protect them and frankly anything might be happening to them. What if they get abducted by aliens while on a sleepover at their friend?s house? What if a zombie apocalypse breaks out while they?re playing at the local park? What if they?re on a school trip to the British Museum, and one of the statues turns out to be a Weeping Angel like on Doctor Who?
Of course, some fears are more realistic than that, and a couple of things make me genuinely worry for Joe?s and Tom?s safety. My two big worries are, one, they get hit by a car and, two, something goes wrong with their diabetes.
http://blogs.diabetes.org.uk/?p=2537
