Type1 Superstar ✨Lachie✨

Age - 11 / diagnosed at 9 on 16.4.21

Lachie had actually been complaining over a sore tummy for a while, I put him on probiotics thinking it was a gut issue. He was also always on the skinnier side too.

Looking back Over the Easter holidays we remembered he was drinking a lot of water and wetting the bed but that was because of all the water right? Not once did we think anything of it.

It was Friday and the last day of the school holidays, Lachie and Millie were both at vacation care as Adam and I both worked full time. About an hour after drop off, I received a phone call from care that Lachie had a sore tummy, I said he is fine. They rang again about an hour later and said he has just started throwing up.

Adam was finished early on Fridays so he can go pick him up and at this point we are still not concerned and thinking that nothing is wrong with him and he can go home and sleep it off. However, I cannot explain it but I got this weird feeling that we should take him to the doctor, so we rang but they had no appointments available.

Adam has now picked him up and he is still throwing up, so I said to him just take him to the doctor they can’t exactly tell you to leave.

So he did, Adam walked into the doctors with our boy vomiting and they told him to go straight out the back.

A new doctor was on that day and for the first time ever our son was finger pricked. The Dr was even in shock and did to Adam he is 27.7 we need to call an ambulance.

Adam had no idea what that even meant. Somehow I managed to get to the Dr’s surgery before the ambulance did, three Lachie in the back and rushed to hospital where they were waiting for us.

Lachie couldn’t even walk at this point, it was scary watching him go downhill so fast. His BGL is now 37 and we still aren’t understanding what’s happening. They said he was minutes from DKA. My heart broke that day and it still hasn’t healed.

His diagnosis was quite traumatic, he had numerous needles, squirming, blood spraying, screaming, crying, getting held down and generally just not understanding.

He has a fear of needles and it has affected his mental health.

I hope that one day he sees what a brave, amazing person he is and that he will inspire other T1’s.