I haven’t written on my blog for a long time now, I have been too busy with school and being the Man-Of-The-House.
It’s a big job, you know.
I like looking after my Mum though, sometimes, even if I just do something little like make the bed she gives me the happiest smile. Those smiles make me feel really important.
I guess I wanted to say that on the 15 May, my Mum is going to a meeting with a lady from Medtronic about getting me an insulin pump!! I feel like the last person on Earth who doesn’t have one sometimes. It doesn’t bother me that much, I actually quite like getting needles. 5 seconds and it’s all over and done with. Sure, my belly looks like someone’s bottom if they sat on a echidna, but no one gets to see my tummy so it doesn’t matter.
My diabetes is invisible to everybody else.
I can walk through a shopping centre and no one knows I have it.
I remember when I was a baby and Mum would always have to drop everything and I’d be in the recovery position outside a cool shop. The sad part is that nobody ever stopped to help her, and the saddest part is that for once, I couldn’t even help her.
I am almost 7-and-a-half now. It feels like I am a lot older though. My uncle Dan thinks that I might be an old soul. Maybe I am, I don’t know. Sometimes, Diabetes makes me feel old. Like when an old man has to stop to catch his breath if he has to walk a long distance, I have to stop and drink a sweet drink before I can keep on playing with my friends.
I have some important letters to write now. I have to write to Ian Macfarlane MP, and ask him to ask Prime Minister Rudd if he will give kids in Australia the access to insulin pumps. I’m going to send him a Jellybaby lapel badge also. Mr Macfarlane and I are old friends now. I hope he will absorb what I am trying to tell him in my letter.
I just realised that a big part of Diabetes is all about trying to make people listen.
me = liz said,
27 April, 2008 @ 2:07 am
Ouch! I don’t think I’d like to sit on an echidna! At least the insulin injections are only one at a time – not all at one like it would be if an echidna did it!
How do you think an echidna would describe it’s tummy if it was diabetic?!
Daena said,
30 April, 2008 @ 2:42 am
Hi Lance (and Kate!)
I haven’t dropped by in age, because I sort of rolled out of the d blogging scene. But what amazing, awesome news this is!
Hooray for your new pump. I’m sure you’ll do amazing on it. And gain great control too!
Kate, I shifted my blog. It’s great to be writing about my journey with diabetes once more!
cheerios!