Dr. Phil-Munchausen by proxy show

[Boo]

I'm just sitting here watching Dr. Phil waiting for the school bus. The show is about Munchausen by proxy. Very sad, but... Does anyone else ever wonder if other people feel that way about us? Like that we are just making this whole T1 thing up for attention?!

[Lee]

I think most people do not understand the scope of Type 1 and what it means to live with it. My boyfriend kept saying my 9 yr old aught to be able to control it, take responsibility, etc...but one day he was over, and she had a scary low, and ever since he has been more involved and inquisitive about her care. It was like he got it.

My boss asked me why I needed to take a sick day if my mom was home...why couldn't she stay home with my Mom? I then explained the scariness of stomach flues...and she asked more questions, and I told her more, and then more, and she asked how parents of T1 aren't doctors?

So, while I don't think they (the non-d's) think that we have that horrific mental illness ,I do believe that they think we are overly concerned and over reacting most of the time...until they try and see.

[Mama2H]

One year before Hailey was dx there was a mom in town that claimed her child had diabetes. Claimed they were going to all of these drs, made him poke his finger in public, wouldn't let him eat any sugar at all, the school nurse had believed her that restricting sugar was keeping him off of insulin, etc... basically everything we know about type 2 but anyway they did a huge fund raiser for her family to help pay for "medical bills". After the fundraiser she was caught in the lie, she owned a business at the time and had to sell to pay all of these people back, huge to do about it here in town. She got caught a few months before Hailey's dx. So of coarse when Hailey was dx everyone was looking at me cross eyed. It took a full front page news article about her to get people to believe she was really Type 1 and in that article I pointed out all of the things about Type 1 and the differences between type 2 (basically to point out that I was not lieing and showing how I knew what I was talking about). It still affects the way people deal with our family though. I am sure there are alot of people in town that think of that mom every single time they see Hailey and I. It really does upset/anger me that 1. she did this to her child 2. she has made our lives harder in her lie.

[frizzyrazzy]

I didn't see the show but I've come in contact with one D mom who I think was deliberately causing hypos and hypers in her child. That was freaky and sad. I don't know if this disease was her issue or not, but she also sort of invented all sorts of other complications that went along with the D and none of it made sense. She used to make this big production of the ambulance coming, the glucagon not working, the trips to the ER...almost like she was bragging. It was so weird.

[Tori's Mom]

I think most people do not understand the scope of Type 1 and what it means to live with it.

So, while I don't think they (the non-d's) think that we have that horrific mental illness ,I do believe that they think we are overly concerned and over reacting most of the time...until they try and see.

DITTO exactly. I don't think they realize why we are so vehement and vigilant about the care our children receive. Almost as though they think we go overboard regarding treatment when we don't....we do only what it takes to manage the diabetes the best we can.

[Momof4gr8kids]

My boss asked me why I needed to take a sick day if my mom was home...why couldn't she stay home with my Mom? I then explained the scariness of stomach flues...and she asked more questions, and I told her more, and then more, and she asked how parents of T1 aren't doctors?



I had a similar conversation with the health aide at Julia's school. She asked me how I sleep at night (you know, from all of the worries).


I think we fit the profile, because we are all medically knowledgeable. Sometimes we don't take the first answer, either (like when Julia was mis dx'd with bladder infection) but since our kids really have type 1, and that is part of being a parent to a kid with T1, I dunno ......

[ScottB]

Our son Justin has made it very clear that he does not want any body to have pity or feel sorry for him because of his D and we as parents don't want it either. Justin has even shunned the idea of making new friends that have D because he's got plenty of friends already and they like him just the same as they did before he was dx,d. Basically he's saying that just because he has D doesn't mean you have to have D too in order to be his friend. It's kind of like the color of your skin, it doesn't matter if you're black, white, hispanic .... have T1, T2 ..... it simply isn't relevant because he's more interested in knowing the person on the inside.

[MySweethearts]

I don't think we are anywhere close to those types of parents that do that to their children. We are just taking care of our children, when they are hurting theirs. I usally am pretty discrete when I check my sons blood sugar in public. I usally just tell him, I need to check you instead of saying I need to check your blood sugar. But, when I think he is low, then I don't care what people think and I whip out the monitor. I have a feeling that some people think I do worry and concerned way too much, but those are the people who do not try to understand.