I don’t know what brought this up, but one of my teacher friends sent one of her students to talk to me about the insulin pump.
Come to find out, the young lady is a senior in high school and wants to go out of town for college.
I told her why I like the pump and then went into how I managed my blood sugar with it. Like all people when I first explain it, she had assumed it checks blood sugar (for those of you reading the blog that doens’t know, NO it doesn’t — that technology isn’t available yet).
Well, come to find out, it sounds like she doesn’t manage her diabetes well enough, and I’m with her parents and told her this. I also told her — and made sure she understood that I was talking to her diabetic to diabetic, not teacher to student, or adult to child) that she needed to start managing her own diabetes.
I’m in an unique position for these kiddos, since I DO manage my diabetes and do use insulin. I can see both sides of the situation, both the parent side and the kid side. So hopefully I got something good across to her.
But there is no way I would encourage her to even go on the pump until she learns to do her own management, much less go to college!