Thought I'd better introduce myself

[Monica]

Hi All

I'm Monica, mum to daughter C, who was diagnosed March 2007 aged 10. I'm also mum to daughter F who is 3 years younger and not diabetic, but worrying as she's 10 now.

We went to Clinic last Thursday. Her HbA1C was 6.9. We were happy with the result, but unfortunately this result is only because C had quite a few unexplained hypos 😱. The doctor would like C to go on a pump ( I assume because of those hypos), but C doesn't want to. He also showed us how to calculate the insulin a different way (same as pump users), which at first scared me. But then thinking about it I realised that I just simply needed to know the times tables.

I have been looking and commenting on threads here before I introduced myself because I wasn't sure whether I'd continue visiting here.

 

[Northerner]

Hi Monica, an 'official' welcome to the forum 🙂. As you probably know we have some parents here that are very knowledgeable about pumps. Your daughter's reluctance is understandabel, but she might be persuaded if she could do a 'dry run' or meet other children her age with pumps? Maybe Adrienne can put you in touch with someone. 🙂

Hope you decide to stay! 🙂

 

[Mand]

Hi Monica

My son also diagnosed in 2007 age 10. He now on a Veo pump (since Jul09) and things going very well so far. 🙂

 

[Gemma444]

Hi Monica

Welcome to the forum, My son Jack aged 8 was dx in Aug last year. Hes on injections (mixes) but hoping for him to go onto MDI very soon.

 

[grahams mum]

hi and welcome to the forum

 

[Steff]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

 

[Old Holborn]

Hi Monica and welcome. 🙂

Love the names of your kids, nice and short 😉

 

[PhilT]

Hi Monica, welcome to the forum.

 

[Monica]

Thanks for all your welcomes.

As to doing a dry run with the pump, I have suggested that to her too. And she does know 1 boy with a pump. But thanks for your offer. I might have to take you up on that one day.

We have a wonderful childrens/parent support group in Hull we go to. There the children play/talk while the parents discuss and support each other. The boy there has his pump for about nearly a year now and is doing well on it. At the last meeting this boy had a bit of trouble with his tube though. His parents and he stayed calm about it, but I was worrying for him 😱 almost panicking (and he's not even my child!). Mum kindly answered all my questions I had at the time.