If my cursory math is correct, today marks the day my daughter has had t1d half her life. So from here on out, she'll have had it "most her life." She's getting more adept at dosing herself (with supervision) and understanding how many carbs are in commonly eaten items. At the same time she's becoming more vocal with her displeasure of having diabetes, such as after the girl scout meeting the other night when she couldn't have snack because her blood sugar was too high, repeating, "I hate having diabetes" multiple times. In these moments, I let her know she has every right to be angry and hate diabetes once in a while.
I think it will be easier that having t1d is all she knows, but she sees the rest of us around her and knows that although frequent BG checks, counting carbs, bolusing (dosing), pump changes, and waiting to eat because of high BGs are her "normal" - they're not "normal".
On July 27, 2010, we found out that our 3.5 year old daughter has Type 1 Diabetes. When we started meeting other parents of children with diabetes, they all said that it gets easier... It does; it becomes the new normal. But it has yet to be "easy" but no one said it would be "easy", just "easier".
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