Our Type One Jelly Tot

Welcome to our blog and firstly thank you for taking the time to read and support us all in our life long journey with type 1 diabetes.  For those of you who don't know we are a family of 4 living in Oxfordshire. Mummy ( Suzie ) , Daddy ( Stuart), Big sister Grace age 7 and our little jelly tot himself - Oliver.  Oliver was diagnosed at the age of 2 with type one diabetes. Oliver has now just turned 4 and has had over 2112 injections so far in 18 months.This will never end for him unless there is a miracle cure that we all pray for. This blog is our way of sharing our journey to family, friends and others who may or may not be experiencing the same highs and lows of this auto immune condition. Its also about giving you all a true understanding about T1 and ironing out some of the common misconceptions of diabetes. If by doing this it helps just one family out there feel like they are not alone then its a success. I am also hoping it will help me -mainly to vent out all...

After another restless night  ( this was now to become the norm to us) today was hopefully finally the day we got go home!  The morning was lovely as Oliver got to see Santa and got given a little gift - this lifted his spirits up and he said - "do we get to go home so Santa can come to our house tonight?" I smiled and said hopefully but you know what if we cant then Santa will know exactly where you are so we can still have a lovely Christmas day. He seemed to accept this (strangely) and at this point my heart was melting - no arguing just pure cuteness. He was happy playing with the toys - as a parent you sit and think about all the amazing charity events that have happened to raise money to buy such lovely toys for them to play with - even the donations of toys - there are nice thoughtful people out in the world!  Still lunch time had hit - it was becoming the routine of testing the blood sugar before eating and I had started to over come the fears ( emphasis on ...

The day of the 'hangover' - Oliver woke up at the crack of dawn - typically just when I was finally dozing off. He did as he always does - straight up like a bouncy ball - apparently the bed was his new trampoline. He had a smile on his face - I just let him role with it as it was nice to see.   Then he asked me a question I was dreading - Where do we have breakfast? - I am hungry........Of course I couldn't find a nurse - I hadn't been shown yet what to do in order for him to eat- something we had completely taken for granted before now. Food for every child had been ordered and placed on the end of the beds- even Oliver's- the form had been filled out to say please give the food to the nurse station first, this hadn't happened so of course Oliver just went straight for it- its the first and only time I had ever taken food away from him.  I found  myself frantically walking up and down the corridors like a lost sheep trying to find out how to give my c...

It was one of our favourite times of year - December 2015- Christmas - days where you can cosy up together on the sofa under the blanket with hot chocolate and watch our favourite family films,read our annual Christmas tales, where you can lose yourself in the moment,for Santa is about to make your kids faces gleam with joy and excitement. As a parent you cherish those moments for it gives you that 'warm fuzzy' feeling inside just to see them happy without a care in the world.  We had booked to visit the winter wonderland in London making the obligatory visit to Santa and soak up the traditional Christmas atmosphere. It was a brilliant day, we had taken the pushchair as Oliver was still only small and we decided we  didn't want to hear the usual toddler whingeing - "mummy,mummy, carry,carry". We stood in the queue for the 'Magical ice kingdom'. It was brilliant and both kids were so impressed ....... for Oliver this lasted all of 5 minutes, he becam...

Type One Diabetes is an auto immune condition- this is where your immune system attacks healthy body tissue by mistake. In Type one this means that the immune system attacks the healthy cells in the pancreas. This therefore makes the pancreas unable to produce anymore insulin. Taking away the production of insulin has a vital affect on the body as without it, glucose can then not be moved out of the bloodstream and into cells for the body to use as energy sources.  In turn this causes your body to feel tired, become thirsty , need the toilet a lot more frequently and start to become thinner. This is know as the 4 T's of Diabetes -  Toilet - The body will try and get rid of the excess glucose by pushing it out in the urine. Thirsty - Because more urine is being passed there is an increased thirst. Tired  - Because the cells aren't getting enough energy there will be tiredness and eventually exhaustion. Thinner  - Because the body still needs...