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So here were go!
What is your name?
B: “B”
J: “J”
L: “L”
How old are you?
B: “Ummm…eight.”
J: “Twelve, soon to be thirteen.”
L: “Six.”
When were you diagnosed with diabetes?
B: “I think I was five years old.”
J “When we learned I had diabetes I was 8 months old.”
L “Uh I think I was four? Was I four? I was two!? I thought I was four!”
Do you remember what happened when you were diagnosed or how you felt?
B: "Not really.”
J: “Hello, I was 8 months old. No.”
L: “No.”
Do finger pokes or shots [or site insertions/infusion set changes] hurt?
B: “No, not really.”
J: “No.”
L: “No.”
What is a high number?
B: “300 and up.”
J: “299 and up.”
L: “378.”
What is a low number?
B: “About 90, and below.”
J: “Under 100.”
L: “71.”
What does low blood sugar feel like?
B: “My legs get wiggly. Sometimes I feel lazy.”
J: “I feel weak and I can’t really think straight.”
L: “It feels like your legs are tired, and your knees are tired. But sometimes it is hard to feel a low.”
What’s your favorite way to treat a low?
B: “Eating a snack of course!”
J: “Apple juice.”
L: “Hmmm…cookies.”
How do you feel when your blood sugar level is high?
B: “Angry, and I need to go pee a lot.”
J: “Angry, I have a headache and I’m thirsty and I have to go to the bathroom.”
L: “Uhhh, well, I drink a lot of water, and I breath out and in a lot.”
What’s the best thing about having diabetes?
B: “Getting Lawton!”
J: “I get my Lala!”
L: “You get an awesome pump, you get to eat carbs, and you get a Lala. HE is the cutest dog, come on!”
What’s the worst thing about having diabetes?
B: “Having to test my sugar all the time.”
J: “That I have to test my sugar ALL the time.” (At this point he isn’t happy his answers are so close to B’s.)
L: “The worst thing, oh, THAT thing…if I was at zero, that would be the worst thing. If I fell down and hurt myself when I was low that would be worst too.”
Do you worry much about diabetes?
B: “ehhh…sometimes.”
J: “No.”
L “Uhh..no.”
If one of your friends were diagnosed with diabetes, what would you say to that friend?
B: "I would say everything is alright. And I’d tell him how to take care of his diabetes.”
J: “It’s not so bad.”
L: “I would tell him I have diabetes too.”
What’s your favorite food?
B: “Ummm…probably…ahhhh…pizza.”
J: “Shrimp Burritos!”
L: “Hmmm…cookies! No, not cookies, mashed potatoes with gravy!”
What’s your favorite snack?
B: “Apple chicken sausage.”
J: “Sausage. Chicken Pineapple…ahh…that is my favorite. Any kind with pineapple.”
(Can you tell what we had for our afterschool snack today?)
L: “Granola bars!”
What’s your favorite low-carb food?
B: “Fish.”
J: “Omi’s fish.”
L: ((Eyebrows furrowed.)) “Cookies!” (We need to work on that one! I asked him if cookies have carbs and he said yes. So then I asked him to give me a favorite food with NO carbs and he said chicken.)
Do you know what a blog is?
B: “Like, somewhere where people write what is happening.”
J: “A blog is a big website that people can go to as they wish to catch up on whatever the creator of the blog writes.”
L: “Blog? What is that? No.”
Do you know that I blog about diabetes?
B: "yeah.”
J: “Yes.”
L: “No.”
Do you care?
B: “Not really.”
J: “Not really.”
L: “No. I don’t even know what it is!”
Why do you think I blog about diabetes?
B: "So everyone knows how I am doing, and they can give me advice.”
J: “To help people who have kids with diabetes, so they don’t have to go through the same stress you did. And it’s fun for you.” :)
L: “To meet new pen pal friends.” (Hi Joe, :)
What’s your biggest wish?
B: “To have a swimming pool.”
J: “5 more wishes.”
L: “Oh, having a swimming pool.”
Who’s your best friend?
B: "My friend is (A boy from school).”
J: “A boy from school.”
L: “A boy from school.” (I don’t use MY boys names, so I thought I better not use theirs.)
What do you like about him/her/them?
B: “He is funny, sporty, and always nice to me.”
J: “He is really nice and funny.”
L: “Uhh, he is awesome.”
What’s your favorite thing to do?
B: “Probably, playing handball.”
J: “Video games and biking with my dad.”
L : “Bike ride.”
Do you have a hero?
B: “No.”
J: “Yes, Dad.”
L: “Yes, J.”
What do you want to be when you grow up?
B: “I want to be a baker. No, not a baker. Probably, an astronaut.”
J: “I want to be in sales like dad.”
L: “I want to be a teacher.”
Who’s your favorite person in the whole wide world?
B: “My family.”
J: “Does it have to be one person? Ummm…my family.”
L: “Oh that, why do I have to say this again? J!”
Are you afraid of anything?
B: “I’m a little afraid of heights.”
J: “Huge giant spiders crawling on me and snakes that are not in cages.”
L: “Yeah. I’m afraid of bats.”
Fill in the blank. (Your name) is___________. There is no right or wrong answer.
B: “Really nice.”
J: ((DEEP THOUGHT)) “Hungry.”
L: “A boy! “
Thank you B, J and L, for taking time to answer these. Now we are going to pass this one on to one of my favorite D Mama Peeps in the world, Lora and her son Justin at My Diabetic Child!
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