Two Organs Short: How Many Dinosaurs To Carry An Insulin Pump?

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

How Many Dinosaurs To Carry An Insulin Pump?

Finlay has always been a bit difficult to dress. He is still very small for his age and has never had the puppy fat you expect in a young child. When he first left hospital at 2 months old we found it really hard to get anything to fit him. Luckily we found the Pumpkin Patch range of clothes for teddy bears fitted perfectly!!

Modelling the teddy bear range

Now the main problem is keeping his pants up. All those that are long enough for him seem to be made for kids twice as fat. Then we hook his pump onto the belt and five minutes later he's wearing them round his ankles. I realise that the fashion of today might be to wear your pants ridiculously low, and maybe the local teenagers think he's the coolest 3yo in the neighbourhood but it's just plain wrong.

So thanks to one of the parents at his brothers' school we now have a cool set of braces...with dinosaurs on!! He seems to like them. Not sure what he'll think when he looks back in a few years but it's saving our blushes for just now.

How many dinosaurs does it take to hold up an insulin pump?

1 comment:

JulesApril 14, 2011 at 9:36 AM
those braces are adorable! OMG the teddy bear range! reading your blog makes me appreciate just how unique everyones experiences with life and parenting really are.
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I am the proud father of three children, one of whom has a rare condition called pancreatic agenesis, which means he was born without a pancreas. He was also born without a gall bladder (hence the two organs short bit!) and with multiple heart defects.

I've read a number of great, thought-provoking, funny and informative blogs by diabetics or parents of diabetics and thought with my son's condition I could write one with a slightly unique viewpoint. With such a rare disease this may become one of the least read blogs on the web, or it may hold some interest for those in the diabetes world, even if just as a curiosity.

And perhaps, for some parents desperately searching the net for anything they can find when they are at their lowest and feeling utterly alone, as we were a few years back, it might offer hope.