The eight -year -old, diagnosed one, was one of the 60 selected from all over Spain to participate in the Ninth Diabetes Cup in Madrid.
Next November, the month in which World Diabetes Day is celebrated -on the 14th -, one year of the diagnosis of little Sergio Álvarez Cabo, Gijonés, eight years old, student of Nicanor Piñole, goalkeeper in the Llano Sports Society will be completed2000, partner, like his father, of Sporting and also fan of the Bádminton, who debuted with seven years with a type 1 diabetes mellitus. A disease that has imposed his own regulation, but that has not limited him in what he likes most: The practice of sport.His mother, Lorena Cabo, recalls that even the same day he left the University Hospital of Cabueñes he wanted to be present in the game that his team played that afternoon.
In Cabueñes he spent four days admitted after his pediatrician confirmed the suspicions with which his parents had taken him to the health center: that this excessive thirst - "drank four and five liters per day" - and the constants gone to the bathroom to the bathroomTo urinate they were not normal.Four days in which the child, and his parents, looked "very wrapped" and received "very intense formation" about what was type 1 diabetes and how they had to handle it thereafter."The treatment was very good and still," says the mother, who emphasizes that "we have a phone that we can call 24 hours a day because there is always a person on duty.It gives you very peaceful to know that you have that support ».
At the moment they have only had to resort to him on one occasion.When Sergio returned to school and the teacher was questioned what to do in the face of very high blood glucose levels."They told us to drink water and do some exercise and it was lowered."
school nurse
The attention in the school environment is precisely the only one but that Lorena Cabo puts this new situation that has had to live.«Ideally, there would be a nurse at school.You don't realize it until it happens to you, ”he says.And that Sergio, a child who stands out for his maturity despite his young age, "is very aware" of the importance of controlling the disease well and has learned to prick the insulin himself, a routine that has to repeat in each mealAnd, depending on blood glucose levels, sometimes also mid -morning.
«We have full confidence in him.He watches and clicks without problem, ”says his mother.So last summer, when he insisted that he did not want to miss the experience of leaving camp, he did not find objection from his parents.
And so, day by day, some and another are accommodating with a chronic disease that, at first, "you receive as a sow because you think that it will limit it", but that, on the other hand, it gave the opportunityof fulfilling one of his dreams: knowing the city of the football of Las Rozas.Because this neighbor of Nuevo Roces was one of the sixty children from allvilof diabetes (Fede), in which children are affecting the importance of regular practice of exercise and healthy eating as tools for adequate disease control.
He was the goalkeeper of the 'Sharks' team, he slept in Sergio Busquets's room -although his favorite player of the National Team is Unai Simon -, a medal, a diploma and a team of the National Team took from Las RozasAnd he won a ball signed by the players in a kitchen contest in which he prepared a football field -shaped salad.All in an intense weekend,Last September, which will always keep indelible memories.
