i was just thinking with 2 diabetic now she can ues the help on here ??. i love this site i find a lot of stuff that helps me out.
Of course your mom can join this site! There are lots of “Type 3’s” here – people who care for people with diabetes! She will find both peers and loads of support and information!
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You seem like a nice young man and I think we may be able to make an exception to allow your mother to join. I’m joking, of course she can-- this is the community of “people touched by diabetes” I think having two children with it makes her very well qualified by that definition.
Anyone touched by diabetes is always welcome. We have lots of parents, siblings and children of people with diabetes.
I will gladly be one of the first in line to welcome your mom! (The more Type 3s, the merrier…)
Please encourage your mom to participate! We love interacting with people who “get it.” Loving someone with diabetes gives people like your mom a unique window into our experience.
In some respects, the parent of someone with diabetes has the hardest job of all. Your mom not only can join, she should. 
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Thank you for writing this, David.
I can only imagine how noxious a low must feel. And although I’ve witnessed my daughter vomit so forcefully from an uncontrollable high that her nose began to bleed, I do not actually know how this feels. But I can try to describe the searing and helpless pain I feel deep in my heart when my daughter has JUST HAD ENOUGH and cries because she knows her life can never go back to the way it was before her diagnosis. Only a parent of a CWD knows this kind of pain. And can truly understand how I would greatfully rip the T1D from her little body and place it in my own, if this was only possible.
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Well, I’ve said it numerous times here, but it’s one of those realities that can never be pointed out too often.
Having a chronic disease is one thing; watching someone you love struggle with it is quite another. And if the “other” is a child, then not only do you have to deal with the anguish of being unable to make it go away, you must also become the management expert–a double burden. That’s really what I meant about the “hardest job”.
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This is why my heart aches for parents of diabetic children. The pain they feel is emotional not physical. I do not have a child with D but I am a parent and I know the pain I feel when one of my children suffers. Nothing can hurt a parent more that being unable to soothe the pain.
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Precisely. Dead center.
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I remember telling my mom that I had NPDR. My heart ached for hers! I didn’t understand how terrifying having a sick child is until my step son was hospitalized for sepsis 3 years ago. I think having an adult child with D has got to be SO hard for my mother because she isn’t here with me. My heart goes out to all parents with a sick child.
I’ve been through (every day) a child suffering with a different issue. It’s not fun. It has aged me prematurely and scarred my soul in ways I can’t even describe. The bright side of diabetes though, as a parent-- is that you CAN make a difference… It won’t always be celebrations but parents can instill good habits about management, how to eat right, stay on top of it, etc that will lead to better health for their children in the long run
So true! You offer important perspective, Sam.
I’m 34 and my mom still worries about me, if not daily then at least weekly. I so, so appreciate what she did for me growing up and still does for me today. I often feel worse for her than I do for myself.
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she join today. i hope she like it as much as i do.
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