06/03/2026
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This week's comes via Care Opinion Scotland for our Paediatric Diabetes Team. Well done to everyone involved 💙
September 2024 is a month our family will never forget. It arrived quietly, like any other, but within days it became the moment everything changed. After attending a doctor's appointment for an ongoing cough, I mentioned the thirst and bedwetting, which sparked our incredible doctor to check our son's blood glucose level and we were immediately sent to hospital.
Our little boy - full of energy, mischief, and that spark only he has - suddenly wasn’t himself. The staff were lovely but to the point and kept referring to my son as the ‘walking wounded’, a phrase I will never forget. Then it came and nothing prepares you for hearing the words Type 1 diabetes attached to your child.
The world seemed to tilt. There’s a particular kind of fear that comes with a diagnosis like that - a fear that sits in your chest, heavy and unmoving. We were thrown into a whirlwind of numbers, injections, carb counting, hypos, hypers, and the terrifying realisation that this wasn’t temporary. This was life now.
But in the middle of that storm, something remarkable happened. We met the diabetes team at Forth Valley Hospital.
To read more ⬇
https://www.careopinion.org.uk/1424454 #1426542
