Hello all
I am a newbie so hope you will be gentle with me. I'd like to share a little of what has happened over the last year and bounce a few ideas around. Here goes!! My youngest son has had type 1 diabetes since he was 10 we have absorbed it into our lives and he is of the get on with it school of thought and has taken it by the throat and given it a good shake. At secondary school he was mercilessly bullied not by the pupils but by the staff who literally made his life a misery because of his diabetes, not allowing him to eat when needed or test his bloods or provide work if he was off sick. At one point he was told his diabetes was in his head and he was attention seeking. We took his school to a disability tribunal and won, removed him and had him taught at a hospital school for a day and a half a week and god love him he came away with 9 GCSE's. He now has an engineering apprenticeship a lovely girl and life is good. During all this he suffered with dreadful depression and was under a psychiatric team and though he is better I can still see the scars he is nervous in crowds reticent to make new friends etc. Just before Christmas I lost my Mum adn it all came crashing down. new year's day I was a mess took myself off had a good cry and a severe talking too and decided up was the only way.
today a strange thing happened and an opportunity I never expected came my way to help in a fundraising push for diabetes UK, it means being high profile in a local way and organising collection points etc. But the big but is am I too scared to give it a go...its so outside my comfort zone. Do you think it will be a good focus after such a terrible year or do you think that I might be biting off more than I am up to chewing. I would like to give something back as they supported us so much through the dark days of the tribunal. Would you be generous enough to give me some advice please?