Showing posts with label hypo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hypo. Show all posts

Saturday, 4 October 2014

Hypo Awareness Week, Please Don't Judge

As we a coming to the end of Hypo Awareness Week  I though I would share a concern that has been on my mind lately. We have had 3 incidents recently where Jack has lost control. When I say lost control I mean really lost his temper and totally seen red, causing him to lash out in some way. 

One of the incidents was during a football match and he hit his opponent who tackled him, now of course he was immediately sent off and fined and rightly so. 

On another occasion he was on Holiday with his friends parents, they had an argument he hit and punched his friend square on the nose then ran off. When his friends Mum rang me to tell of course she was upset and a little angry and rightly so.


Now on these occasions I wasn't present, he had tested his sugar, which did not appear low. But I know this is not my child, he is laid back happy go lucky and chilled out and mostly always has a smile on his face, friends I have told who know Jack very well have also been baffled. Don't get me wrong like every teen he can whine till the cows come home, is lazy and would starve rather than make a sandwich and constantly irritates his little brother. By no strength of the imagination is he perfect, I am not deluded. But he is not aggressive. 

Monday, 2 June 2014

How We Deal with Hypo's

The thing that fills me with the most dread, probably my biggest fear in the world is Jack having a huge hypo. Hypo means that a diabetic persons sugar levels go below 3.9. Now if this is recognised and dealt with quickly then it is easily treatable, however failing to recognise warning signs could cause a temporary coma.
 The Boys were so excited to have a tube carriage to themselves.