Society & Culture in the US

Understanding diabetes treatments can be difficult for adults, let alone children, whether it’s their parents who have to undergo them or themselves. My Uncle Ray was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes around 4 years ago and explained it all to his son Little Ray and to his two daughters Aerial and Crystalline. Little Ray was about 12 and the two girls were 15 and 17. Naturally, the two teenaged girls had a better grasp of things and I think Aerial actually had a friend who was a diabetic and that must have helped. However, Little Ray really didn’t understand. All he really seemed to get was that his father was sick, but he didn’t quite get that it was different from the cold or the flu. According to my uncle, Ray would watch him take his insulin shots every day with fascination and when he asked about it my uncle just told him that those shots made him feel really good. Thinking that, Ray climbed up onto the kitchen counter and got into the cupboards and into his father’s insulin. He started giving him shots of it and my uncle had such a large supply he hardly noticed at first. Then when ray started getting sick, they took him to the doctor and that’s how they all found out what he was doing.