My daughter was diagnosed in 2009, when she was 12 years old. She is incredibly brilliant and independant. We just came through one of the many storms we/she will have to face. She has been managing her own BGL, without input or help from me. If I had tried to talk to her ask about her sugar levels, I was met with resistance and was essentially told to butt out. This past week, she has been sick with a cold, which turned into vomiting. Friday night, I decided to check her blood glucose levels myself because vomiting is not a normal sympton of a cold. BGL was 563. Rescue was called. Diabetic ketoacidosis set in, and she was hospitalized. She hadn't checked her blood sugar, at all, in the four days leading up to this episode. We are home now, and she asked me to start managing her diabetes for a while. Thank the Lord she survived, thank the Lord she learned from this experience and realized she can't go it alone; that I am here for her too. (Cute EMTs were a bonus, too)
~ Happy to still have my daughter
Williamsburg, VA
