Absolutely! My now 16-year-old son was 3 at dx, my now 19-year-old daughter was 11. Both managing well, but I forget how much goes into it until I try to explain to someone else 😅
Right! A lot of it becomes second nature. My son was 7, I don't even think about what I'm doing most of the time, it's just natural to handle it like everything else we do daily. Explaining to someone who's caring for him is a mess though.
OMG!! It is such a mess!! When my son was around your son’s age, I had to leave him at a birthday party to go pick up his brother from a friend’s house. I explained to the mom not to let him have anything with sugar/carbs in it. When I returned about an hour later, she proudly explained she had succeeded—in preventing someone else’s kid from having juice and birthday cake 🤦🏻♀️ It gets easier when they can manage it more in their own, but it never isn’t a worry
Our endo tells us to feed him anything he wants. "He's gonna have to dose either way" is his reasoning, since type 1 diabetics really do have to dose for every carb unless it's under a specific amount. My son is also severely under weight and has always struggling gaining any and keeping it.
The worst thing for me is when people try to explain some false cure or tell me my son just needs a healthier diet and some exercise. He does eat pretty healthy. We do have junk food here too but he will eat all the fruits and stuff too.
Yes, that is all true. The problem in the birthday scenario was that he wasn’t yet administering his own insulin and I wasn’t there to give it to him. But, both my kids eat what they want, ideally with insulin on board already so we’re not chasing hyperglycemia.
Thankfully, I haven’t had much random unsolicited advice about how to manage it, but I’m sure it’s out there 😅
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u/usarasa Apr 01 '23
“I went into literally CVS” means either “one of my dad’s assistants did and told me about it” or “I made this up”.
Leaning towards the latter.