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Firstly, I want to say how proud we are of Tocky. He has recntly been to his Christmas party with the NHS for all the Diabetic children and we managed to stay all the way until the end unlike last year - we lasted there 10 mins accompanied by a hysterical and tearful Tocky! He had a moan but no tears when we arrived but soon settled down when we went into the room where there was a DJ and disco lights. We sat down and Tocky stayed on my lap for a while and then we were certain he would be off - the Magician/Entertainer entered!! We were a little apprehensive and I thought I could take him out of the room for a little walk if he got scared or upset but to our surprise, he was fine. He just sat and watched! We were so relieved!
After a segment of gags and 'magic', the music started up again but this time, hubby and I got up to dance. Tocky wanted to be picked up for a dance at first but that was fine - daddy could do that whilst I embarrassed myself doing The Gangnam Style for the first time in public - oh the shame!!! I suppose it wasn't too bad as the diabetes nurse(DN) was doing it too and hubby tried whilst holding Tocky!!
Then the lights came on and The Entertainer set the kids up for a game of pass the parcel. Now Tocky has never played before as he's never been to a party so the DN asked hubby to sit with him in the circle. The music stopped on Tocky first and he helped daddy open the layers and got a prize!! After that, daddy sat in position whilst Tocky decided to run around The Entertainer and inside the circle all the kids were sitting in, stopping and looking at them all!! He was so confident!! We would never have believed he could be like this for his first party!! The DN and Tocky's Consultant were all watching him and were so pleased seeing he was happy and confident. We were so proud.
The disco commenced and then we went into another room to have some food. Strange how all the kids were in the same boat - testing, injecting and bolusing but it kind of feels nice being around others going through the same thing. We had sandwiches, crisps and banana cake which was absolutely delish!
Going back into the disco, we were told Santa would be arriving and again, we got a little worried but decided to just get on with it and wait and see.
As Santa entered, we told Tocky it was Santa. We had been reading him Christmas stories about Santa for a while now so he kind of knew what Santa was. He looked and carried on playing! Again, so proud of our boy coming such a long way.
His name was called out for a present but we thought we might be pushing our luck to expect him to get it so I went.
As the party ended, we went around the room saying our goodbyes - first to my friend who has 4 beautiful boys and the eldest has Diabetes, then we saw the Consultant. Now bearing in mind Tocky doesn't like being touched by her in clinic, she reached out for a cuddle and he cuddled her back! I then asked him to blow a kiss and he did!! But then, I nearly fainted because our scared little Tocky kissed her on the cheek!!! KISSED HER!!! She was so happy as were we but in shock!!! We said bye to the Psychologist, who is lovely but we've only met with him once but see him around in clinic appointments, then said bye to the Diabetes Nurses who also got kisses!!! Where's my boy?! This child is totally different!!!! Everyone was so happy to see this change in him but we were over the moon and so proud!
We called the in laws as soon as we got home as they were expecting us to be home 10 mins after we got to the party!! They were so relieved to hear that he was OK.
Luckily, his BM was good after the party as we had to what I call 'guesstimate' his carbohydrates. I was certain the banana cake would send him sky high but he was good.
Since the party, Tocky has shown a lot more confidence at toddler sessions and seems to be learning to share a bit better. After all, he shared the party with all those kids and parents.
