Skeeter now is indistinguishable from her other 13 year old peers. Only a few differences mark her from her friends. She can’t stay up as late at sleepovers as she would like, because she has to get up no later than 9:00 to check her blood sugar level. She also has to do a finger stick during half-time of her soccer games.
She can’t pig out on pizza and has to stay away from non-diet soft drinks (I’m not sure either of those things are bad).
She has to be a little more deliberate with her meal choices and MUST eat a snack at appropriate times during the day.
Sometimes we get on to her and she blames "The Diabetes" (for inappropriate things like "Mom, my room is a mess because I have diabetes", etc). This is mostly done in jest.
But she’s adjusted far better than her mom and I ever dreamed she would.
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