So we intervene and test his sugar every so often to see if he needs insulin and make him bolus if he needs to do so. We become nags, are resented. We can only back off for so long and then become nags again. That is ok with us because He will live to hate us. Just as long as he lives, that is what matters the most. Will this cure get to him before he forgets one too many times? I pray it will.
Teens have it tougher with this disease emotionally in my opinion. As a child, the parents take care of buying the right foods, making them available and bolusing the insulin. As an adult, a type 1 diabetic must do these things themselves or risk the consequences. But as a teen, there is both the child needing help and the forming adult that needs to do it alone in the same being that is distancing from their parents and defying rules. This leads to trouble. Devin's blood glucose level this morning was a whopping 415 but with good reason. What a non-diabetic teen might binge on could cause a stomach ache or weight gain. But a teen diabetic might binge and have the same along with a serious health emergency IF they "forget" or don't bother to take their insulin. Devin has been forgetting to bolus (take) his insulin. As a teen he is not in the practice of doing it himself yet.
So we intervene and test his sugar every so often to see if he needs insulin and make him bolus if he needs to do so. We become nags, are resented. We can only back off for so long and then become nags again. That is ok with us because He will live to hate us. Just as long as he lives, that is what matters the most. Will this cure get to him before he forgets one too many times? I pray it will.
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