Christmas can be a hard time for any diabetic and the temptations of the trifle, chocolate's and drink can sometimes cause problems, same as birthdays. The doctors tell you though that because its a special occasion, that only happens once a year, you can push the boat out a bit and have some serious fun.
But in doing that you still have to make sure that you aren't going to end up in hospital with Ketoacidosis. When I am at Christmas parties or birthday parties, and if I start getting drunk someone is always there to make sure that nothing seriously bad is going to happen to me.
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Alcohol and Diabetes
Being diabetic can be hard in all respects, but when you are a 17 year old it is even more harder. You can't really go out and do all the other things that your friends do, if you do you have to be extremely careful that you don't end up in hospital. What I find the hardest is drinking, if and when I drink I have to make sure I check my B.M's, eat while drinking and don't drink too much which is the hardest part.
The last time I got properly drunk I ended up in hospital. I wasn't living with my mum at the time and I had stopped taking my insulin for a bit, I was staying with a friend and we weren't going to school so all we done was sit and get drunk. We were drinkin for about four days straight and I was eating very little, it got to the point where I was lying on her couch thinking I was speaking to people who weren't even there, being sick every 5 seconds and not being able to keep anything down. My mum kept on phoning me to see how I was and when she eventually got me on the phone she heard how I sounded and sent a taxi up, the taxi driver had to come into the house as I wasn't able to walk myself and he had to help me into the taxi. When I eventually got home I collapsed outside the taxi and was then rushed to hospital.
When the doctor seen me I got a drip for fluids that I had lost and was getting my bloods taken, he then said that if I had stayed up at my mates I would have most probably died as I was in a severe case of Ketoacidosis. In that month I had been in hospital about 4 times due to severe drinking, and even though I have nearly died a couple of times I will still go out and get drunl, but not to the extent where I'll end up in hospital, it's to hard to stop when all you'r friends are drinking around you and you'r not allowed to.
The last time I got properly drunk I ended up in hospital. I wasn't living with my mum at the time and I had stopped taking my insulin for a bit, I was staying with a friend and we weren't going to school so all we done was sit and get drunk. We were drinkin for about four days straight and I was eating very little, it got to the point where I was lying on her couch thinking I was speaking to people who weren't even there, being sick every 5 seconds and not being able to keep anything down. My mum kept on phoning me to see how I was and when she eventually got me on the phone she heard how I sounded and sent a taxi up, the taxi driver had to come into the house as I wasn't able to walk myself and he had to help me into the taxi. When I eventually got home I collapsed outside the taxi and was then rushed to hospital.
When the doctor seen me I got a drip for fluids that I had lost and was getting my bloods taken, he then said that if I had stayed up at my mates I would have most probably died as I was in a severe case of Ketoacidosis. In that month I had been in hospital about 4 times due to severe drinking, and even though I have nearly died a couple of times I will still go out and get drunl, but not to the extent where I'll end up in hospital, it's to hard to stop when all you'r friends are drinking around you and you'r not allowed to.
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