As a parent you sometimes get a wake-up call that your job is done, that your child no longer needs your assistance in one area of their life. Be it walking to school, going to the cinema or shopping, catching the bus or train, or managing their Type 1 diabetes. …
Victoria and her group at the summit of Mt Kinabalu Preface by Kev: I truly believe travel broadens your mind but it’s easy to see why people with diabetes think twice. I know from our month long backpacking trip to India that everything is not plain sailing, but most issues …
Amy and her new insulin pump and her new DiabeTees iPump t-shirt Back at home and bouncing with joy We arrived back from the hospital with pretty good glucose levels. It was about the same time Amy’s friends were leaving school. She texted them “I’m home, come over and see …
Animas Vibe insulin pumps The wait is over…almost Just a quick update for now… In three hours time we’ll be starting Amy’s appointment for fitting the pump. We’re all excited, Amy especially, she’s been counting down the injections one by one, there’s only one left which she’ll take at breakfast …
Amy, aged 10, at the caves in Ellora In late July 2011, exactly 7 months after Amy was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, we backpacked around India for four weeks, in a trip we called Monsoon Meandering. This is the last post in the 14 article series about that trip …
The route for our ‘Monsoon Meandering’ 4 week trip In late July 2011, exactly 7 months after Amy was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, we backpacked around India for four weeks, in a trip we called Monsoon Meandering. This is post 11 in the series about that trip and its …
Back to school Nerves and reassurance Amy was a bit nervous about going back to school but I wasn’t too worried as our diabetic nurse had reassured me that the office staff at Amy’s junior school were fantastic. It was the start of the spring term and our life …
Back to school In two minds I was in two minds about going back to school: I wanted to see my friends as I hadn’t seen them for ages but I had several concerns about dealing with diabetes at school when my parents weren’t around. My first moment …
25th December: Amy, 4 days before being diagnosed, reads one of her presents whilst wearing another 30th December 2010 Good friends of ours were due to visit on 30th December for some festive fun but I thought Amy would want to cancel as it was the day she left hospital …
25th December: Amy, 4 days before being diagnosed, opens a present she’s wanted for a while 30th December 2010 Whilst the care we received from the staff in the Northbrook ward of Winchester’s Royal Hampshire County Hospital was nothing short of excellent there’s something about being in hospital that just …
Novopen, made by Novo Nordisk After being told Amy had type 1 diabetes we were given some time to be together before one of the wonderful DSNs came back to enquire whether Amy was hungry as it was now dinner time. She was hungry, as she had been for the …
international symbol for diabetes Diagnosed 29th December 2010 Feeling poorly I had been off school sick in early December, away from my friends who I missed. But it was only a horrible cold and I was sick once or twice. It was nothing to worry about, soon I’d be okay …
On the 29th December 2010 Amy’s carefree childhood ended. I had no idea how a couple of days in late December would change our daughter Amy’s life forever and that of our family. Amy and I were looking forward to a girlie shopping trip to Eastleigh on the 28th December …
Amy was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes on the 29th December 2010, aged 10. It was an open and shut case, no possibility of it being anything else. When I look back now I can see that she displayed many, if not all, of the classic signs of someone with …