{"id":169205,"date":"2010-01-12T06:47:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T11:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/introductions-and-announcements\/47537-hi-from-uk.html"},"modified":"2010-01-12T06:47:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T11:47:36","slug":"hi-from-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/169205","title":{"rendered":"Hi from UK :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just discovered this forum while looking around online for diabetes related stuff, and thought I&#8217;d stop by and join up!<\/p>\n<p>My son (now 16) was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in September 2008 (then 14) and is now on many many injections a day &#8211; mainly because all he does is eat!  My Dad was diabetic (also Type 1) so I recognised the symptoms right away and got my son to the Doctors immediately, insisted on the BG test there and then &#8211; they wanted to send him for a blood test the following week! &#8211; His BG was 28.9 (520.2) so he was transferred straight to the hospital&#8230; one overnight stay and back home with his new insulin pen&#8230; I felt for him &#8211; he had a major needle phobia up until that point, but now you&#8217;d never know!!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really proud of how he&#8217;s handled the whole thing and just gets on with it, he&#8217;s managed to mostly stay under good control (6.5, 6.7, 7.2 &amp; 11.3) although recently his BG went sky high again (his pancreas finally stopped producing any insulin so we&#8217;ve had to double his doses) but almost back under control now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; sorry for the ramble! I never know what to say on the introductory threads&#8230; lol<\/p>\n<p>Look forward to chatting with you all \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;ve just discovered this forum while looking around online for diabetes related stuff, and thought I&#8217;d stop by and join up! My son (now 16) was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in September 2008 (then 14) and is now on many many injections a day &#8211; mainly because all he does is eat! My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}