{"id":2759,"date":"2014-05-14T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2014-05-15T06:30:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T06:30:33","slug":"dblogweek2014-day-3-what-gets-me-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/2014\/05\/14\/dblogweek2014-day-3-what-gets-me-down\/","title":{"rendered":"#DBlogWeek 2014 Day 3 – What Gets Me Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dblog<\/a>Wednesday’s topic:<\/strong>May is Mental Health Month so now seems like a great time to explore the emotional side of living with, or caring for someone with, diabetes. What things can make dealing with diabetes an emotional issue for you and \/ or your loved one, and how do you cope?
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\nI’m not so sure it gets me down but it’s incredibly hard seeing your child get upset, about anything, ever. Throw in Type 1 Diabetes into the mix along with teenage years, blood-glucose-level-challenging-growth-supports and the fast-forming schoolgirl cliques and it’s amazing that the dark days don’t occur more frequently.<\/p>\n

\"copyThere’s no doubt that I find it difficult when occasionally it all becomes too much for Amy, those days when she’d rather just be someone with a fully functioning pancreas, those days when she doesn’t want to be different. I know she’s had too much when I just get ‘the look’ usually after I’ve asked her to try and fill out more details in her log book, which I use to check whether or not there’s a pattern and therefore her insulin pump’s basal needs adjusting. Just after I’ve got ‘the look’ I absolutely hate diabetes and wish it would bugger off for good. I normally don’t mention anything about diabetes for a good while afterwards.<\/p>\n

But this isn’t what really gets me down about diabetes.<\/p>\n

Some comments by a minority are annoying: the people who say those stupid things and suggest that cinnamon or okra will cure my daughter; the ones who say they couldn’t have diabetes as they hate needles; the ones that say (in front of my daughter) about someone they know of who lost an arm\/leg due to diabetes. This always makes me laugh though:
\nhttpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LFIVVHQod5o<\/p>\n

 
\nBut this isn’t what really gets me down about diabetes.<\/p>\n

I find the attitudes of some others without diabetes annoys me too: those that “can’t cope” with their slightly runny nose; can’t go to work or school because they’ve got a bit of a cough; find the bad in anything that happens rather than the good. Come on people, take a look around you and see what my daughter and many of my friends have to go through each day. Walk a the day in their shoes then realise that they cope with far, far more than you and they go about it with a smile.<\/p>\n

But this isn’t what really gets me down about diabetes.<\/p>\n

No, what gets me down is when I’m reminded just how brittle life can be for those with Type 1 Diabetes and the recent tragic story of the death of 15 year old Nicole Wilson brings this to the forefront of my mind. I heard about it through the news of #SingForNicole<\/a> going viral and I must applaud Liam Payne for his tweet about Nicole<\/a>, that’s a nice touch.
\nI’ve known about ‘dead-in-bed syndrome<\/a>‘ for a while now but some reason I’d always associated it with hypos following a night out drinking, so when a 15 year old died I was shocked. It’s the sudden realisation that all I thought I knew was wrong and my child could be taken from me at any time.
\nAny time.
\nHonestly I don’t think I’ve slept soundly this last week.<\/p>\n

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