Is he still injecting or on a pump? If he is not, i’d definitely try to get him on an insulin pump too, gives him far great control and he can set different basal rates for different times of the day and night which can help address problems.

No he’s injecting and as far as we know never been offered a pump.  He wouldn’t let us in with him to his last two check ups. It’s likely if he was offered one he would just say ‘ don’t need one, I’m fine injecting’ – he just wants to be normal I suppose and doesn’t understand a pump may be better.

And yeh it is hard, we’ve been coasting along just fine after the initial shock and learning we needed to do after his diagnosis.  This has really hit home home serious this condition is, not that we didn’t know, but it’s been a massive wake up call.

Anyone with a 20 year daughter in the west of scotland that wants a tall handsome young man for a boyfriend please let me know. Parents will need to be happy with them having sleepovers :)

Thanks kelvin.  Just all a bit raw at the moment.  And yeh I need to speak to someone.

Thanks for everyone’s support

Sounds like he’s more on top of things than your earlier posts suggest then.

Only because we told him to do it. Saying he’s not on top of it is unfair on him, he’s just not very vocal so wouldn’t go to an appointment and ask for things. As I’m sure you know it’s not easy for a person of that age to deal with.

Has he sent form DIAB1 to the DVLA?

Yes, he did that as soon as he passed his test.

Night time lows are rare, and rarely get as bad as your son experienced.

I know, but it only takes one I guess.

If we lie about hypos will this affect his driving, ie will clinic inform dvla?

I think at the moment, until we get over it, we need to let it limit what we do. I can only imagine the level of guilt we would feel if the worst happened. however remote, if we were away having fun. But it’s too soon for us to even think about that anyway.

As Eluded to above, it’s unlikely you’ll come to harm from a hypo in your sleep, the issue is what might happen to you if you have one while you are awake, falling/driving etc so, aside from feeling a bit rough the next morning, it’s not something I (25 years T1) ever really worry about, certainly not something to not leave him alone overnight (chances are he’s had a few, but never even known about them), but I understand why parents may fret.

Really, so even from the state he was in – eyes rolling, frothing at the mouth and totally out of it, he would just have come round? I know you’re not going to say ‘leave him, he’ll be fine’ but that would give us some level of comfort. Not that we’re in any state to leave him any time soon but would be good to know we could still leave him for a night at least.

He is at the age where he doesn’ want to come to our caravan at weekends, but he is terrible at keeping in touch despite having his phone welded to his hand. He can keep in touch with friends but not us.

Sounds just like our son, and we have a caravan too.

To be honest I’ve not been impressed with his levels of care, it’s just been a bit ‘you’ve got diabetes, see you in 6 months’, we need to get that sorted. He’s never been told about hypo gels or a keytone reader. The problem is he doesn’t want us to interfere, it’s his thing and he wants to deal with it.

Fossy that kit you’re using sounds impressive, we’re happy to pay if it will give us some level of comfort.

And any recommendations for hypo gels?

The thing is he doesn’t want us going with him when he goes for his check up, understandable at 20 I guess. But he isn’t pushy and doesn’t ask for stuff. I think I’ll see if I can go in with him next time as I need to get some questions answered.

As I’ve said it is generally very well managed, this has just been a very big shock to us and no matter what we get for him I can’t see how we can leave him to possible to through that on his own, no matter what we do to mitigate that happening.

If there’s the slightest chance he wouldn’t be able to wake up and sort himself out then it’s just too much of a risk to take.

Thanks for the feedback so far.

Please DO NOT take that as medical fact and bet your life savings on it

Don’t worry I won’t.  It won’t change how we feel at the moment.

I think the Freestyle Libre is now available on the nhs in Scotland and he has a 6 monthly check up next month so he can ask about that.

We’d been to watch football that night and it was a pretty exciting game so that could have caused his blood to drop. He did have something to eat when he came in though.

He’s usually very sensitive to how his bloods are and has always woken if if his blood has been slightly low so this was a big shock.

No girlfriend unfortunately,, diabetes has given his confidence a big knock so he struggles with stuff like that.

I’ll speak to him about testing his blood during the night but there’s no way we can risk leaving him on his own overnight now. It’s just not worth the risk.

Bookmarked for our trip family in June

Of course they’re legal, they wouldn’t be for sale if they weren’t.

My new car has self parking for parallel and perpendicular parking and gets you out of parallel spaces to.  It was park of the spec, its not something I would have taken as an option but it’s bloody impressive. You’re obviously still in control of the car, all it does is steer but you can take control at any time by grabbing the steering wheel.

Not little boots

None of the 1st 3.

Might be little boots, not christine and the queens.  I’ll have a listen later.

No, she’s in her 20’s I would guess. And a drum machine might have been involved rather than a snare.

If you’re interested I think I have one for sale, can’t remember if I sold it or not.  Brand new, £25? email in profile and I could send details tonight.

Oh the irony and thanks for conforming you are a troll.

The irony? What do you mean by that?

It’s hardly the end of the world when a buyer pulls out a sale on eBay. And I find it’s best to just move on.

Why don’t you do it, out of interest?

I don’t make mistakes and I’m prepared to forgive people that do.

You go ahead and raise your unpaid item case, I’m sure it’ll make you feel better.

Silicone Tidds will do the job if they’re still available, although having looked at the website I think it”s changed hands!

I’m starting to suspect you were the “buyer” Gary M.

Don’t be stupid.

Do you treat B-I-N as an just being an option to buy when using eBay yrself?

No, did I say I did.

Are you being real or just playing devils advocate ?

I’m really real, just understanding.

How is this not ballsing it up for the seller in your world?

It takes literally 5 seconds to relist an item

Because the buyer has committed to buy but not paid. That is literally what unpaid item strikes are for.

But they got in touch with you, its not as if they just didn’t bother paying.  People make mistakes sometimes.

Because the non-paying buyer has ballsed up the auction for the seller?

Not really, it was buy it now, I could understand if it was an auction.

I want to go down the “unpaid” route so that I know the buyer will get a unpaid item strike

What’s to be gained from doing that? The ‘buyer’ contacted you, it’s not as if they just didn’t bother their arse paying.  Seems a bit mean just for the sake of it.

But eBay won’t let me mark unpaid until 48hrs after the buy click. Is that how I’m supposed to proceed?

Just cancel the order, you don’t pay fees. Then stick it on eBay again.  I can’t really see what the issue is.  I ‘sold’ an iPad on eBay last week, buyer got in touch to say they’d bid on another one and won that, so I cancelled the order. Stuck it back on eBay and it sold this morning for more than the first time.

I sell lots on eBay and people not paying happens very rarely.

at least its good to go for the next few years!

Jinxed it.

If that rack can only fit four bikes how big a rack do you think you would need to fit eight? I think it would be quite big :)

if anyone knows how to turn off the “chilled” storage I’d love to know)

My Peugeot had a wheel type open/closing thing in the glovebox for the chilled glovebox, when I say chilled, that would have happened only if the air con was working, which it wasn’t. Although the glove box handle fell off anyway.

the touchscreen is going to take some getting used to.

I’m not sure its worth spending much time doing that :)

I had a peugeot 307 from almost new on a 54 plate. Never any electrical faults at all

Mine must have had your share.  I had a 51 plate xsi which was great fun to drive but it had random electrical and sensor faults till the day I sold it.

I’ve got a few for my 20 mile each way commute.  Pinnacle Arkose 4, the full on winter/wet weather commuter, lights, full guards with long flaps. Old Kona Jake the Snake with 32mm GP 4seasons, dry day commuter, also knows as rainmaker as every time I ride the thing it rains on the way home :) . A dolan prefissio, sunny day commuter

They made an improvement to the piss poor headlights on my honda accord, but then again attaching a couple of birthday candles would also have made a difference.  They were still pish, just not as pish.  They won’t make crap headlights into great headlights.

I solved the problem by buying a new car with bixenon headlights, **** me I can actually see :)

-8 on the moor between Kilmarnock and Glasgow this morning, lovely morning though.  Most of the cycle path was unusable after yesterdays snow.

I’m replying to a direct comment.

And that comment suggested it was relevant, that’s why I said it wasn’t.

You assume wrong! There’s another property out there in the sister and partner’s name, that the father gave them money towards. It’s just been sold and “some” money is due back to the father, but again it’s all completely undocumented and undefined.

Again that’s not relevant, it’s between the dad and that sister. Nothing to do with this property.

but would only really apply if they’d actually agreed to do it at that point and gf had paid her off.

I think the op would only apply it if it came to £10k :)

I wonder what the situation would be if there was negative equity in the flat, would the girlfriend be happy to pay more because she’s been paying the mortgage and happy for the sister to only pay a proportion based on the time she lived there?

Or would she be going to the sister and asking her to pay 50% to clear the mortgage.

Here’s another way of looking at it. The 2 sisters bought a house together then the sister buggered off after 1 year with her boyfriend and my girlfriend was left with the full burden of the mortgage for 9 years.

Why was it a burden, was she forced to live there or could she have rented it out halved the costs and halved the income with the sister.  Over the 9 year period did the girlfriend say to the sister ‘you’ve left me with this burden of a mortgage, what should we do about it’? Or did she just enjoy living there and now as it’s come to share the profit she’s created the ‘burden’.

As I said earlier take the girlfriend living there out of the equation by adding up all her costs over the last 9 years, subtracting what it would have cost if she’d stayed there as a tenant, take that off the equity then split 50:50. It may mean your girlfriend is worse off.

Think about it this way – if your employer gave you a house to live in rent free it would be classed as a taxable benefit.

If you really wanted to do the calculation properly then consider all the girlfriends costs over the 9 years including the mortgage payments, consider the rent she would have been paying if she hadn’t stayed in the property or rental at that property, subtract one from the other (which will be roughly the same amount anyway), then split what’s left 50:50 after selling the property. That way you take out all the girlfriends costs and the benefits out of the equation.

Total mortgage payments since day 1 total £60k (for illustration) and the sister has contributed £3k of that

But that would be what you girlfriend would be paying had she lived in a rented flat.

Looks like the max you want the sister to get, even though you’re staying out of it, is £10k.

It’s not the fairest deal, as your refusing to accept the fact that your girlfriend benefited from living in the property for 9 years, but if the sister accepts it then happy days.

I’m reminded of some friends divorce settlement, they had got everything settled apart from last £10k, friends told them to split and give £5k to each of their kids – but oh no they spent £8k arguing about it.

My sister’s in a similar battle, I had to lend her £10k so she could pay a barrister to fight for er £10k. It’s all about winning though it would seem.

If the sister is happy to get £10k then she’s daft, and your girlfriend has done very well out of it.

she’s been living mortgage free with her partner as he bought their house for cash with an inheritance.

That’s of absolutely no relevance. Apart from the fact that your girlfriend benefited by having the flat to herself.