Parent voices
Posted on September 19, 2009
Jacqui Double tells Tom and Joe’s diagnosis stories
I can date the time when things started to be a bit strange in our household because it coincided with a frightening experience. It was Halloween in 2000. Joe and Tom were in the front room watching children’s television…
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Nickys diagnosis story
We first noticed things changing with Ashleigh-Louise back at the beginning of March 08, when she was 6, there was a bout of ‘slapped cheek’ (fifths disease) going around school, the teacher said to me at the end of one day, “we think Ashleigh has ‘slap cheek’ some of the mums have been ringing in to say their kids have it and she has the symptoms”…
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Aaron’s diagnosis story
Had problems with Aaron when he was roughly just over a year old, probably not related but makes you wonder, he had an aggression problem, used to fling into a temper at the slightest thing, tried changing his juice to a pure sugar one as we thought his moods was due to the sweeteners etc in his drinks, he then started going to a special needs group as his temper got so bad as needed some space from him….
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Aidans diagnosis story
He was in reception half days and although we only live 10mins walk from school he started complaining he was too tiered to walk home. Then once home he would drink so much in fact he then started to wet the bed and I just put it down to the fact that he was drinking to much .I told him he could only have water from now on thinking he would stop drinking so much but he just drunk the same amount…
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Alice’s diagnosis story
After her first week, she came down with a cold. Absolutely nothing out of the ordinary, and quite frankly what you would expect after her first week at nursery – the cold lingered a while and then she developed little spots on her torso. She had commonly had rashes when she was little – in her first daycare nursery she was sent home on 6 occasions with suspected chickenpox. We thought nothing of this simple rash…
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Claudettes diagnosis story
I constantly question my actions on the day she was diagnosed. Being a nurse in medicine I was fully aware of the symptoms of diabetes, and the significance of ketones in urine. Why did I ignore the symptoms, why did I try to ignore ketones in her urine? Denial I think…
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Daniel’s diagnosis story
Ours started out with Daniel drinking like a fish for a few weeks in January this year. He would often say “It’s a world record, I have just had 6 drinks in a row”. I assumed it was a little game he was playing…
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Ewens diagnosis story
A few weeks before his diagnosis he had been unwell, something viral we thought – calpol and laying on the settee nothing unusual at all it only lasted two days and he was soon fit and well again…
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Honeys diagnosis story
Honey was 13 months when she caught her first illness just a virus that the boys had already had and passed on. I remember thinking what a healthy baby she was never being ill before. About 2 weeks later she was due for her MMR and although she seemed better in herself she had a cough that she hadn’t shaken off yet…
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Hugh’s diagnosis story
In October 2007, I noticed that Hugh, then 11, was looking quite underweight for his age. He also started having trouble with his eating. In the mornings, he would often awake saying he felt so hungry that he felt ‘sick’ and it became necessary to give him something to eat the very minute he woke up…
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Jess’ diagnosis story
Saturday 18th August was the day of our first ‘proper’ family holiday together since Jess was born. A week away in a caravan in Tenby. We all had a really great time….Abi still asks when we are going back. On the Thursday night, I noticed a couple of dodgy looking spots. Friday morning confirmed my suspicions….chicken pox. We headed back home on the Friday night rather than wait till the Saturday morning. There’s something about being at home when you’re ill isn’t there…
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Katie’s diagnosis story
At the beginning of March 06 Katie seemed to change personality – she became very prickly and very easily upset, and also she started to lose weight. But she was eating huge amounts, which I thought was good because since her illness when she was 4 (I’ll put a sentence about that at the end) she has always been a bad eater…
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Melissa’s diagnosis story
Melissa had always drank loads but it was when she started waking in the night crying for a bottle (something she had not done since 6 months old) and flooding her nappies that I thought we had a problem. With no diabetes in the family and no knowledge of the disease it did not really cross my mind…
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Molly’s diagnosis story
We decided to blow our savings and take the girls to Florida in the June. We had a fantastic time, it was just what we needed. Girls were fine on holiday, Molly was a little tired at times but, after all, we were in Florida, whizzing around theme parks, staying up late. She was drinking loads, but then again, we all were, it was hot and humid. She needed to go to the toilet more, but she was drinking more. It all made sense, nothing seemed odd…
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Nathan’s diagnosis story
He had spent a half term week with his brother and cousin visiting my mam and dad up north. At the end of the week my parents brought my kids to their cousin’s house in Birmingham and hubby and I travelled from here (Surrey) to collect them…
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Owain’s diagnosis story
He was 4, and had always been skinny and a picky eater. It was the school holidays (between Nursery and Reception), and we were travelling by car to the Vendee in SW France. Every break in the journey, Owain would guzzle a carton of orange or apple juice and ask for more (very unusual for him, as he normally wouldn’t drink enough, but it was hot so we didn’t think anything of it)…
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Pauls diagnosis story
I think I first noticed things change slightly was in October 1997 Paul had just had all pre-school boosters and soon after he began wetting the bed at night which he hadn’t done for over a year, but he was still quite young and one of the twins was still wet at night so didn’t think much about it. Then after Christmas he seemed to be asking for lots to drink and eat but then they are spoilt with eating and drinking over Christmas so thought that was reason…
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Peter’s diagnosis story
It was May 2006. Peter had just celebrated his 5th birthday in April and was an energetic, lively boy who loved going to playgroup and was due to start school in August…
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Poppy’s diagnosis story
Poppy’s diagnosis luckily did not involve DKA. She was 3 and had yet had another bad bout of croup and was given oral steroids (she had been constantly ill since birth). She had never been a child who ran around and never spoke so I took a while to notice the changes in her…
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