kjksmom
07-13-2007, 05:12 PM
Another new member here. I've been receiving the email digest, but hadn't officially joined.
My son Kyle was diagnosed last year. He loves to share the story: our cat, Cacique, was diagnosed with diabetes on Friday September 1, 2006. Typical symptoms: excessive drinking, peeing, eating, then losing weight. We started giving Cacique two shots a day. School started Tuesday, and on Thursday evening I noticed that Kyle was eating all the time, drinking like a fish, and waking up to go to the bathroom. When he stepped on the scale and announced he had lost 6 pounds....I took him to the doctor on Friday afternoon: they sent us to Children's in Boston for the weekend, and here we are. Kyle was never sick because we caught it so early (thank you, Cacique!) and missed only a day of school. He's gone from Humulin/Humalog to MDIs with the Novolog pen and one shot of Lantus, to the MM pump in May. The honeymoon is over: the biggest problem is he's growing like a weed (5'10" and size 12+ shoes) and the whole hormone/teen thing is going on, and of course that raises havoc with the everything. I will be especially interested in what gets said about and by kids in this age group (he'll be 13 in October).
This forum has already helped me: I learned about mastisol a few weeks ago, and we haven't lost a site since! I hope to check back often and share anything I can, but since its still "new" for us, I think I'll be taking more from you all then I can give at this point.
Cheers!
My son Kyle was diagnosed last year. He loves to share the story: our cat, Cacique, was diagnosed with diabetes on Friday September 1, 2006. Typical symptoms: excessive drinking, peeing, eating, then losing weight. We started giving Cacique two shots a day. School started Tuesday, and on Thursday evening I noticed that Kyle was eating all the time, drinking like a fish, and waking up to go to the bathroom. When he stepped on the scale and announced he had lost 6 pounds....I took him to the doctor on Friday afternoon: they sent us to Children's in Boston for the weekend, and here we are. Kyle was never sick because we caught it so early (thank you, Cacique!) and missed only a day of school. He's gone from Humulin/Humalog to MDIs with the Novolog pen and one shot of Lantus, to the MM pump in May. The honeymoon is over: the biggest problem is he's growing like a weed (5'10" and size 12+ shoes) and the whole hormone/teen thing is going on, and of course that raises havoc with the everything. I will be especially interested in what gets said about and by kids in this age group (he'll be 13 in October).
This forum has already helped me: I learned about mastisol a few weeks ago, and we haven't lost a site since! I hope to check back often and share anything I can, but since its still "new" for us, I think I'll be taking more from you all then I can give at this point.
Cheers!