As for every other school day I am up at 7.
Lucky me, I even get a cup of tea in bed before that.
Quick shower and off downstairs to prepare breakfast,
school snacks and lunch.
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As for every other school day I am up at 7. Lucky me, I even get a cup of tea in bed before that. Quick shower and off downstairs to prepare breakfast, school snacks and lunch.
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new running shoes and all... Last year in February, we received an e-mail from JDRF inviting Mr T to TRY and be a champion at Weetbix Kids TRYathlon event. It is an event where kids, between ages of 7 and 15, are having a go at kids size, age adjusted, triathlon. They are all awarded a participation medal. We liked the idea, Mr T LOVED IT! So we went and Mr T had "the best day of his life", as he stated at the end of the day. As he is preparing for his SECOND TRYathlon, which will be on 29th April, I dug up the story I wrote last year after the event. Here it is: So far, Mr T has tried out many different sports, but he is still looking for his favorite one to stick with it. I just thought it would be interesting to write it all down and see how the pump fitted, physically, into each activity. I’ll also use this list to document to Mr T that he has had enough trials so far. It is time for him to decide which sport he is going to take up – seriously! Just to put the things into perspective, Mr T is using ANIMAS 2020 insulin pump. The pump is water-proofed at 12 feet (around 3.5 m), over up to 24 hours. Mr T has always been a very agile, ever-so-on-the-move child: climbing under and on top of things, jungle gyms, trees. Anything. The activity was always welcomed in our family, more so since he was diagnosed with diabetes at age of 3. We soon noticed that the activity improves absorption and effectiveness of insulin. For the first 3 years after the diagnosis, Mr T was on multiple daily injections of insulin’s. We used pens. He therefore had nothing permanently attached to his body and was free to move, run and climb without a worry of damaging the pump or catching the line and pulling the infusion set off.
We have been part of Diabetes community for nearly 6 years now, since Mr T's diagnosis in June 2006. I soon realized that the doctors are there to guide us and check on us from time to time, but the real understanding and knowledge to be learned about the daily management of diabetes was with people who live with it 24/7.
I reached out to the web, forums and blogs, I met other families, I chatted, I listened and, best of all, I stopped crying. I found "my other home", a place where people understood fully, place of knowledge and reassurance that my son can have a "normal" childhood and life, insulin and all. Today, I am starting this blog because I feel compelled to add our story to the mountain of others with a hope that one day while reading it, another mom, or a dad, or a person affected by diabetes would find something interesting and hopeful in it, that perhaps, just perhaps, might make them stop crying and start smiling, again. |
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October 2014
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