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Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
As you might know, my lad was diagnosed Type 1 Diabetic 6 months ago.
It was a shock, out of the blue, but we caught it before he got ill. He was out of hospital within days. It's been a steep learning curve, but it's not stopped him. He rode with the CC crowd just a few weeks after diagnosis on Manchester Velodrome, then did a long weekend camping with Scouts, and went on to a week outward bound with Diabetes UK (climbing, caving, ghill scrambling etc etc).
Well he has decided he wants a pump. These are expensive and tricky bits of kit, but it saves the 4 x a day injections to 1 small cannula insertion every 3 days. He wrote up a 'pro and cons' sheet and handed that to his consultant yesterday. The consultant was very pleased with his mature approach and will pop him on the training event in January. No guarantee, but it's a start. The issue isn't funding, but training. As a starter, he will be getting a new Blood meter that's complicated, but it's the same device that can control the pump.
We've been a bit worried about a pump as the injections seem easier, but it's my lads choice - no injecting in restaurants, just tap into his bluetooth handset what he has eaten and the pump adjusts.
The consultant was very happy with my lads blood readings - vast majority well within range and no silly highs so far. It's been down to mom and dad making sure he does it, but he and we feel the pump will give him the control, rather than us reminding him.
Fingers crossed, we've got over the first hurdle, and he may get a pump within the next couple of years (could be sooner).
Technology is advancing amazingly at the minute.
My lad is well chuffed - his work at researching it has paid off. We haven't pushed him, we just said we would support what ever he wanted. We weren't keen, but that's his decision, so we kept reminding him to research it.
A step forward.
One of my lads close friends came down with Type 1 over the summer, so he has been helping her get used to it. He has known her 2 years and is in his group of friends - just a weird co-incidence.
It was a shock, out of the blue, but we caught it before he got ill. He was out of hospital within days. It's been a steep learning curve, but it's not stopped him. He rode with the CC crowd just a few weeks after diagnosis on Manchester Velodrome, then did a long weekend camping with Scouts, and went on to a week outward bound with Diabetes UK (climbing, caving, ghill scrambling etc etc).
Well he has decided he wants a pump. These are expensive and tricky bits of kit, but it saves the 4 x a day injections to 1 small cannula insertion every 3 days. He wrote up a 'pro and cons' sheet and handed that to his consultant yesterday. The consultant was very pleased with his mature approach and will pop him on the training event in January. No guarantee, but it's a start. The issue isn't funding, but training. As a starter, he will be getting a new Blood meter that's complicated, but it's the same device that can control the pump.
We've been a bit worried about a pump as the injections seem easier, but it's my lads choice - no injecting in restaurants, just tap into his bluetooth handset what he has eaten and the pump adjusts.
The consultant was very happy with my lads blood readings - vast majority well within range and no silly highs so far. It's been down to mom and dad making sure he does it, but he and we feel the pump will give him the control, rather than us reminding him.
Fingers crossed, we've got over the first hurdle, and he may get a pump within the next couple of years (could be sooner).
Technology is advancing amazingly at the minute.
My lad is well chuffed - his work at researching it has paid off. We haven't pushed him, we just said we would support what ever he wanted. We weren't keen, but that's his decision, so we kept reminding him to research it.
A step forward.
One of my lads close friends came down with Type 1 over the summer, so he has been helping her get used to it. He has known her 2 years and is in his group of friends - just a weird co-incidence.
