We were sat; looking at our seven year old son tucking into a huge adult meal.
For a couple of months now he had been losing weight, was it because he was active? Was it because he was ill?
We were frantically trying to feed him up with fear of taking him to the doctors in case we were accused of neglect, then one day we bit the bullet and visited the GP.
We discussed the symptoms with the GP and realised our son had been urinating and drinking lots, had no concentration, was always tired and looking scarily thin.
The GP did a urine test and within seconds diagnosed our son with Type One Diabetes.
Type one is generally the sort younger people have and is not caused by a bad diet as people generally assume.
He was sent straight to hospital for immediate treatment with insulin and stayed in for just one night with Crazii Mum as he was so quick at coming to terms with his illness.
By the time Crazii Mum and Crazii Son were home he could test his own blood sugar and inject his own insulin using a pen type syringe and was already starting to feel better. Nobody could believe how grown up he was about it, even to this day there hasn't been a tear. His school work is coming on at a lot faster pace due to his concentration being better.
We now have control over what is wrong with him and he can lead a near normal childhood.
We have to monitor his blood sugar closely and give glucose/correction insulin to keep him well, this can be difficult when ill or at night time when he is oblivious to being high or low.
We currently calculate his insulin to the amount of carbohydrates he eats at a ratio of one unit of insulin to 10g of carbs plus a correction of 1 unit to bring his level down by 8.
School have been brilliant and have allowed nearly all staff to be trained to care for him, even dinner ladies!
Our next milestone will hopefully be transferring him onto an insulin pump with which he can insert a small needle on a pad into his abdomen which will stay there for 48 hours and inject the correct amount of insulin when required using a handheld Bluetooth monitor.
We are really looking forward to this as it will be one injection every 2 days instead of 4 times plus a day.
and it is a cool bit of kit which will enable him to just input the amount of carbs he is eating and it does the rest of the work, it will be so much easier at school.
Before Christmas we raised £113 for JDRF who research type one diabetes by having a leg waxing. (ouch)
Please feel free to have a look at their site and donate if you wish. I am planning further fund raising later in the year. http://www.jdrf.org.uk/
As a proud Crazii Dad it is always at the back of my mind about complications but the way he copes just blows me away as I don't feel I could cope as well with the injections.
Our little Crazii Boy is my hero.
Crazii Dad of Many.
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