Often our health care team only sees us for about 15 minutes several times a year, and they might not have a sense of what our lives are really like. Today, let’s pretend our medical team is reading our blogs. What do you wish they could see about your and/or your loved one's daily life with diabetes? On the other hand, what do you hope they don't see?
I love my son’s endocrinologist and I truly believe his best interest is always at heart but as of lately I have been wanting to say “Shut up and listen to me!!! My husband and I live with my son’s diabetes 24/7 so I understand it’s difficult for a doctor to see us every 3 months and make an adequate assessment on what’s going on as the numbers don't always accuratey depict what our family experiences. So with that being said, less talking needs to be done and more listening.
Listen to me when I tell you he had pizza at school everyday for lunch. Listen to me when I tell you that that could’ve been a poor absorption site. Listen to me when I tell you I’m scared. LISTEN!!!!!!!! Doctors may see diabetes on a daily basis but there’s an emotional side to diabetes that doctors don’t seem to understand. They're not sleep deprived due to checking blood sugar at 2am. They don’t deal with the frustration of working so hard on your child’s numbers to only see little or no improvement. So even though I’m forever grateful for the abundance of my knowledge I have around me, I just need them to stop and LISTEN!!!!
They dont say moma knows best for nothing.
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