AIBU diabetes not a big deal

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Does anyone else have a child with type 1 diabetes and get annoyed at the people who don’t have it but maybe know an adult with it and therefore insist on always claiming it’s really no big deal to manage only based on their very vague connection to it??

It also enrages me that so many people don’t understand the difference between type 1 and 2 and still try to claim a toddler has it due to diet.

Do you have a dependent child with type 1 and think it’s no big deal and makes no difference to your life??

Forgot to say, when I was a first aider in secondary school some girls came rushing to me in absolute fear for their friend who had T1. She was unconscious in the toilets and they thought she was having a hypo.
I rushed there with hypo stop medication and it was a truly frightening situation. I knew an ambulance was on its way but there wasn’t time to hang around.
I rubbed the med inside her cheeks and hoping desperately to rouse her.
The paramedics arrived, checked her blood glucose level and administered glucose before taking her to hospital.
The following day, whilst she was off school to recover,she came in with her mum who thanked me profusely for saving her daughter’s life.
The girl wasn’t irresponsible, although teenage years can be testing, had felt low and had eaten a Boost bar. That did the trick until her bg crashed.
Had she not been in school where she had hypostop she may have died.
I’m not scaremongering but showing how utterly relentless this disorder is.
Big shout out to her friends who did exactly the right things.

@SleepingStandingUp my DS does scouts, the Dad should be able to carb count the smores beforehand if they’ve got the carbs and Cals app. It’s got a new function now where you can just take a picture of the food and it tells you how many carbs to input. She shouldn’t have to not have the chocolate or take it home. I remember once when my DS didn’t get a cookie at school, I was really sad for him and cross with the school. Fortunately one of the teachers taught herself to carb count and it made such a difference, I was so grateful. It is stressful.