Thanks ladies
@Alannah - she'd lost a fair bit of weight. TBH I don't know how much but when I saw her in hospital in her vest, I was floored by how much. She's just hit ten and has finally gotten the message about getting herself dressed in her room rather than parading round the house demanding that a grown up help her dress. We got married on her tenth birthday, the weekend before lockdown so I have photographs up the yingyang of her that day. She was my happy, overly chubby princess. Now when I look at her, she's suddenly this tall, in proportion pre-teen, mostly styling this disease out whilst her mother slowly crumbles with the grief and burden of it all. Clearly I don't want her to go back to being so overweight (previously discussed with GP several times and told as she's active she'd lose it when she hit puberty - oh the irony!)
@Lisa66 I am exhausted if I'm honest. I've got an ex husband who is just throwing rocks at me, a mother who listens to what my daughter tells her from the hospital and then is suddenly the expert and tells me that the world is all fine without really seeing how bloody hard this is and how much I've had to learn in the last ten days. She's joined the club of "well you've got all the tech - when your step cousin had it in the eighties...blah blah blah..." Which is fine, except when the blooming tech breaks ten days in, its all suddenly even more scary.
Roche are sending out a replacement monitor but in the meantime, hubby worked out one of the battery connectors was loose so it's been fixed with a bit of tin foil. Still it was probably timely as I've now got how to do manual calcs ingrained on my brain.
Wowsers - sorry for the whiney-arsing. It's been a rough 24 hours and the dietician just tipped me over the edge.
But then she didn't know I'd been sat up all night, waiting for my dog to regurgitate my most expensive silicone cake pan that he seemed to think was edible - which seemed the ultimate kicker when it was the first time I'd gone to bed thinking I could survive the night without worrying about DD
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Anyhoo, I'm back in the room now - we can do this!
🙂xx