I was just wondering what people's best and worst school and teen experiences have been.
I was diagnosed type one at age 6 and am now 17 so can't remember a lot before diabetes but I like to think I cope pretty well with fairly good control (majority of the time!!) :)
One bad experience I had was when I was first diagnosed and was in school I had low sugar but being newly diagnosed and only 6 I didn't know what to do so told the teacher I didn't feel well and she told me to just drink some water so I did, I have a feeling it was near lunchtime and so it didn't end badly but I remember my mum being so annoyed and I now realise how dangerous that could have been, and the teacher had no idea!!
But then again its not all bad going through secondary school (I live in England so that's between age 11 and 16) I probably shouldn't have but to get out of some boring lessons I used to say I needed to go to the nurse and needed to take a friend with me and we would just walk around school for like 20 minutes and then go back to the lesson!
And at the moment I feel like I have pancreas envy for any with a working pancreas, especially if I have a high sugar and see my friends eating chocolate and biscuits I just stare at them :s. I hope I'm not the only person who feels like this sometimes!
So share your experiences and annoyances and will look forward to hearing them!! - also share anything your friends do which really annoys you in relation to diabetes!!
Hi Danielle, I have a funny diagnostic story associated with my diabetes. I was out of the home city for study for nearly 4-5 months. And I was not feeling well from about 10 days. So I called my Dad to take me to home since it was not tolerable for me. I had no idea what was going on. We were going to have lunch out in the restaurant and I insisted to have one of my favorite dish fruit salad. But Dad told me not to eat it now, we will have it some other time.But I insisted dad to have it now only, we don't about tomorrow. The next day I was in the hospital and diagnosed with diabetes (blood glucose level above 550 mg/dL) and I was smiling and tears were in my eyes. I reminded dad about the last day. I was smiling but he wasn't.
I like to think my story is funny. But I guess it isn't really. Unlike most of the T1s here, I had no idea about the havoc my *extremely* high BG levels were wreaking on my body. My mum insisted that I get a blood test because she had identified the symptoms (hunger, thirst, the works...) and it turns out, my BS was 553. I knew that was bad, but I didn't know HOW bad it was :D Anyway, enough background.
I have two best experiences actually, I really can't choose. The first, was 6th December, the day after I was diagnosed. I was supposed to go on a 10-day trip with my college friends. The doctor, after dropping the bomb, said it was 'extremely dangerous', doubly so because I had absolutely no idea what D was or what was I supposed to do. I just told her that I didn't even realize I had it before the blood test and god knows for how long. And ignorance had served me just fine. So, whether she liked it or not, I was going. When my mum realized there was no stopping me, she just told the doctor to give me a 2-hour crash course on the big D :P And it was one of the best trips of my life! Except the time when I felt really guilty about being teensy bit jealous on seeing my friends eat chocolates and cookies and stuff. :(
I didn't tell my friends about me then 'coz I didn't want to dampen their spirits. I told them when we got back. That was a week before my birthday. On my birthday, I was really sad and depressed 'coz I hadn't seen a birthday without sweets and I just wanted to curl up in a ball and lie in bed all day. But my friends, after collaborating with my parents, surprised me at 7 in the morning by coming over, putting my sad little plan in jeopardy. :D Because I couldn't have cake, they got me dhokla (that's an indian dish) prepared in the shape of a cake, with icing made of dried coconut and sesame. I was so touched by the gesture, I nearly cried (I don't usually cry, except during movies :P)
So, that's it. Haven't had any worst experience, if you don't count the 'You're diabetic' news at the very beginning of my new life. I'm sorry about the length of this comment. :P
