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Lazydaisy Online
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Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:56 am
Hello Dorothy.
Does your daughter have emotional support for her type 1 Diabetes,from the NHS?It is very important at her age.It could be the Diabetes that is the root of all her problems.
I have looked at your post several times and wondered whether to say anything.
My husband has type 1 Diabetes, my elder son(with Downs Syndrome) was diagnosed with type 1 at the age of 15,my younger son was diagnosed with type 1 when he was a baby.He was fine until he was a teenager.It was HELL to try to help him to manage his condition and I kept being fobbed off by the NHS.
From 2004 he kept being rushed in with DKA.I begged and begged for support which was not forthcoming.
ON July 25th 2009,my husband's mobile phone rang. It was one of my son's friends.My son had stopped breathing and paramedics were attemptng to resuscitate him.They did not succeed.
My other two children did not lose just a brother that day,they lost the mother and father they had alays known,too.
My son died due to Diabetic Kidney disease. "Natural CAuses."The Consultant said at his inquest that it was not apparent unti his postmortem.I have now seen his NHS notes,and the Kidney disease IS written on lab test results, 11 months prior to his death.Drs failed to act on information,and I am STILL waiting to hear from the hospital as to why the Specialist Dr and the Diabetes Nurses failedto do anything that might keep him out of pain,and give him quality of life,even if they could not keep him alive.
I tell you this, because I have come across so many parents since then who struggle with their type 1 teenage child.
I also talk to young women(with type 1) and their parents who are overcoming mental health problems.One young woman has been talking on BBC Radio and is on Twitter if you use that.She is very brave,and has told of how she was sectioned at one point.Her mother is just as brave,and supports other families now too.
My life ended, the day he died(aged 21).The love of my other children,and now two grandsons, is all that keeps me in this world.
I hope that you and you daughter can get the help and support that you so desperately need. x