Rusty
06-25-2008, 11:57 AM
Hello everyone,
My name is Rusty i am father of London. London is 19 months old and was dx'd type 1 on 4-04-08. I have been in parents chat many times and everyone here at CWD has been very kind and supportive. I have just started getting into forums so i thought i would leave a post intoducing ourselves to all i have not talked with yet. Our story all started a couple of weeks before DX. London started getting sick. He was getting yeast infections, ear infections, Thrush, losing wieght and just getting weaker by the day. I had to doctors 3 times leading up to this and was told everytime it was a virus and it had to run its course, doctor would send us home with perscriptons. The day of dx when he woke up he was so sick he could not even stand up anymore so i took him to ER. The hospital tried to tell me the same thing, that he had a virus. I told the doctor that i know this little boy and that there had to be something else wrong besides a virus. I demanded some kind of tests be done or i was not going to leave till they did them. The doctor then ordered blood and urine tests. Well about half hour later doctor came in and told me he had diabetes and was DKA. I was shocked, so i asked him whats next. (thinking they would give us meds and go home. i did not know anything about Diabetes). Thats when the doctor told me they had a helicopter on they way to transport him to CHOP. The doctors at CHOP were shocked to hear what has happen leading up to this and told me he probrably would not have made it one more day. We spent a week there. I am so gratefull for all they done for London there. London is doing very well now and i am starting to get a handle on all of this. I wanna give a big thanks to everybody that gave me hope that i can do this and was not alone. Thanks from the bottom of my heart to everyone.( you know who you are):)
Rusty and London Shaffer
My name is Rusty i am father of London. London is 19 months old and was dx'd type 1 on 4-04-08. I have been in parents chat many times and everyone here at CWD has been very kind and supportive. I have just started getting into forums so i thought i would leave a post intoducing ourselves to all i have not talked with yet. Our story all started a couple of weeks before DX. London started getting sick. He was getting yeast infections, ear infections, Thrush, losing wieght and just getting weaker by the day. I had to doctors 3 times leading up to this and was told everytime it was a virus and it had to run its course, doctor would send us home with perscriptons. The day of dx when he woke up he was so sick he could not even stand up anymore so i took him to ER. The hospital tried to tell me the same thing, that he had a virus. I told the doctor that i know this little boy and that there had to be something else wrong besides a virus. I demanded some kind of tests be done or i was not going to leave till they did them. The doctor then ordered blood and urine tests. Well about half hour later doctor came in and told me he had diabetes and was DKA. I was shocked, so i asked him whats next. (thinking they would give us meds and go home. i did not know anything about Diabetes). Thats when the doctor told me they had a helicopter on they way to transport him to CHOP. The doctors at CHOP were shocked to hear what has happen leading up to this and told me he probrably would not have made it one more day. We spent a week there. I am so gratefull for all they done for London there. London is doing very well now and i am starting to get a handle on all of this. I wanna give a big thanks to everybody that gave me hope that i can do this and was not alone. Thanks from the bottom of my heart to everyone.( you know who you are):)
Rusty and London Shaffer