PLEASE Learn this Phrase: “Ask Your Medical Team.”

Whether you have been in this diabetes world for a day or ninety years, the things you have gone through have created volumes of incredible and useful knowledge. Much of that experience can help others, but we also ALWAYS and in ALL WAYS must remember that it very well may be that it is only relative to our own experience.

Once again, I read where someone came on line who had reversed the necessary doses of insulin for their child. I was amazed at the lack of times, those who had suggestions, that did not begin their statements with; “This is what we do, but call someone on your medical team first.”

THAT is the ONLY ACCEPTABLE discussion to have. If you get annoyed at me for saying that, well that’s fine. This is not my opinion. We, all of us; ‘WE’ ARE NOT DOCTORS or trained enough to give medical advice. There are many medical professionals on our team who have both years of education and experience that we pay for; for a reason. This is not about an experience where one of us proved our medical team wrong on a particular isolated incident; true, no one knows our children better than we do. So there are always times our medical team will say something, and we will discuss the point. Many, if not most, of those times our medical team will listen and a correct course of action will be charted.

But please remember that should you seek people’s opinions on what they did for their child regrading their diabetes, whatever opinion they suggest, know this—-IT IS JUST AN OPINION based on their individual experiences.

I shutter to think that a newly diagnosed mom will one day go online and seeks advice and someone suggest something not knowing ANYTHING else about the situation and the advice is wrong because there is something else going on that is not known. The results could be catastrophic.

Social media is hugely powerful and helpful Very simple rule to ALWAYS remember; whether you give or seek advice know that first thought, comment, or course of action should always be, ‘……ask your medical team first.‘

Of course your experiences can be HUGELY helpful. Your insight HUGELY needed. But a medical team must always be involved.
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