There is nothing glamorous about running a sanctuary like TEAS!

Yes I definitely recognise her Debbie! :D (Sorry got stuck on phone to grandma!)
What a nightmare for her and you, so glad she’s doing much better! Xx

My friend Ryan has Type 1 as well, he was diagnosed at 18 I think. About 6 years ago now he had a strange turn and passed out at our friends house, we rang an ambulance and he went into a diabetic coma for over a week! Absolutely terrifying! Thankfully he was ok too.
Our poor friends, me with my seizures and Ryan with his diabetes, we keep them on their toes!
 
My OH mother had Type 1 from the age of 23. She got it while pregnant and it never went away (this can happen in pregnancy but it often goes once you’ve had the baby). She said you used to have great big glass needles to self inject and then boil them in a pan for the next day. She lived to a ripe old age of 85 and it didn’t stop her getting on with her life in any way. She always monitored her blood sugars throughout the day and ate sensibly, she liked an odd treat!
 
alpacasqueak said:
Boiling in pans! Wow, how times have changed!
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yes, that was in the 50’s. Times have changed and luckily it’s easier to monitor now with a little pick! 😆 She used to take pig insulin which she said was far better than the synthetic insulin that people take nowadays. We found one of her old syringes complete with needle when we where clearing her house after she died, it looked awful and imag8ne having to inject with one for the rest of your life, but she never complained and took it in her stride.
She once had a hypo in the shower when she was around 81 and weighed about 15 stone, she came round but couldn’t get up. She knocked on the wall to try and get the neighbour to hear her and he did. He’s a grand old lad in his late 80’s he had to ring for the ambulance and tell them that he couldn’t get her up off the shower tray, that he was quite frail and she was on the ‘rotund’ side of things 😆 Luckily they always kept the back door open and checked up on each other every day
 
Ohh Gosh, I'm so sorry you both had to go through this. I'm 25 years old and have been recently diagnosed with type 1 my keytones were also 3.5.hope she is feeling better now with no more nasty symptoms. I'd never realised the seriousness of it. Thank you for sharing x
 
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