Sally71
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Parent of person with diabetes
My daughter manages her D so well, but I do feel for her sometimes!
We were due to do pump refill at tea time yesterday, so at breakfast time I checked how much insulin was left in the pump. 26 units, low cartridge alarm goes off at 20, so I sent her off to school with a warning that depending on her lunch time blood test result, she might get the alarm going off some time in the afternoon. But not to worry if so as what's left will easily last the rest of the day.
Well we have been having a few too many readings in the teens over the last few days, I don't know if it's hormone related or because the weather is getting colder, but it looks like I need to do the next round of basal adjustments
So of course she tested 13 at lunch time and needed a correction, so then the low cartridge alarm went off not long after the end of lunch break... Right in the middle of assembly 😱
This is probably my daughter's worst nightmare! No staff heard it, but a lot of children did, her immediate class mates know about her pump but nobody else does, and lots of year 3 and year 5 children were turning round and looking. Now if it was me I'd have just turned it off quickly, apologised if anyone was glaring at me and not really cared much about what anyone else thought. Daughter, however, didn't want people to know the noise was coming from her, she thought she'd get loads of people telling tales about her having a phone. Clearly it isn't a phone so she wouldn't get into trouble, but anything which draws attention to her being "different" is excruciatingly embarrassing to an 8 year old. So she just sat there and let it carry on bleeping, feigning surprise and looking around as if to see where the noise was coming from like everyone else! The two friends sitting next to her realised what was going on but luckily didn't say anything, and she turned the alarm off as soon as they got out of the assembly hall.
Bless her, I think she coped with it as well as she could... I wish I could have the D instead of her though
This has got me thinking about exams in the future (yes I know the important ones are years away yet, but time flies...) I guess we'll have to try to wangle things so that pump refills don't fall on the same days as exams!
On another note... Daughter's class have been learning about the digestive system in science. She knows a lot about that already so found it all a bit boring. One of her friends asked her what a pancreas does, and she replied "it goes wrong!"
I don't know whether to laugh or cry about that one!
We were due to do pump refill at tea time yesterday, so at breakfast time I checked how much insulin was left in the pump. 26 units, low cartridge alarm goes off at 20, so I sent her off to school with a warning that depending on her lunch time blood test result, she might get the alarm going off some time in the afternoon. But not to worry if so as what's left will easily last the rest of the day.
Well we have been having a few too many readings in the teens over the last few days, I don't know if it's hormone related or because the weather is getting colder, but it looks like I need to do the next round of basal adjustments
So of course she tested 13 at lunch time and needed a correction, so then the low cartridge alarm went off not long after the end of lunch break... Right in the middle of assembly 😱
This is probably my daughter's worst nightmare! No staff heard it, but a lot of children did, her immediate class mates know about her pump but nobody else does, and lots of year 3 and year 5 children were turning round and looking. Now if it was me I'd have just turned it off quickly, apologised if anyone was glaring at me and not really cared much about what anyone else thought. Daughter, however, didn't want people to know the noise was coming from her, she thought she'd get loads of people telling tales about her having a phone. Clearly it isn't a phone so she wouldn't get into trouble, but anything which draws attention to her being "different" is excruciatingly embarrassing to an 8 year old. So she just sat there and let it carry on bleeping, feigning surprise and looking around as if to see where the noise was coming from like everyone else! The two friends sitting next to her realised what was going on but luckily didn't say anything, and she turned the alarm off as soon as they got out of the assembly hall.
Bless her, I think she coped with it as well as she could... I wish I could have the D instead of her though
This has got me thinking about exams in the future (yes I know the important ones are years away yet, but time flies...) I guess we'll have to try to wangle things so that pump refills don't fall on the same days as exams!
On another note... Daughter's class have been learning about the digestive system in science. She knows a lot about that already so found it all a bit boring. One of her friends asked her what a pancreas does, and she replied "it goes wrong!"
I don't know whether to laugh or cry about that one!