We are all teenagers we all have to deal with parents who,although may love us and come at us with the best of intentions they sometimes smoothering and cause that hateful feeling to arise. This feeling I like to call the "rebelious" feeling because thats what it is your parents say you can't go to a school dance,have to be in by 10,treat you like your a horrid child because you ask to stay up an hour latter....On and on....In a normal teenaged relation it's all fine and dandy things are not as complicated as when D is added in.
Along with those fifty other complaints you have Did you check your blood sugar, Before you step out that door do you have your supplies,when was the last time you changed that lance MISSY you know you always forget to you going to get an infection and ON and ON it goes. The thing is and the point I am trying to make is that often when the Rebel monster hits things get a little more ugly for us D kids.
Ive done it with my mom downed a whole bowl of ice cream when she's said I can't go and do something I really would like to do and than let my Blood sugar just fall through the floor. Rebel,Rebel,Rebel your going to hurt youself! I just want to scream at myself for doing it I mean that is behavoir I would expect from a little child not from me. Yet it's happening all the time. D kids will rebel by abuseing their care to get their way. They skip testing or do something stupid thinking that it will work and it won't.
I geuss I understand however it's all apart of being a teen at the same time I think we all need to just personal say "If I take good care of myself instead of being Dumb maybe the rents will stop being Freacks from Mars maybe they will see how mature I am and let me stay out in till 11 pm..." not likely to happen but anyways what I am saying is instead of maybe doing something stupid talk to a third party chill down and than think about abuseing your health....
Than again how bad can a couple of bad care as a teen really affect your adult life as long as you semi keep it together...
What I am trying to say is think before you rebel...
love yall,
Jess
you said it all - all of it!
its relaly just an issue of communicating though i think. they look at you as the little girl who needed to be potty trained and you look at yourself as the woman who is ready to take on the world. believe me, been there, got in that fight : )
what i did, to at least get "D" out of the equation, was make a checklist for myself of injections and meds, and kept track of all of it. that way anytime mom or dad nagged on me bout it before i was about to go out, i'd say, just look at my chart, ive got it under control.
eventually they started (did i mention slowly??) to understand that i was more mature than they may have thought. anyway, they don't respond well to temper tantrums (learned this the hard way too).
anyway - eventually they'll understand, just keep stayin' patient and keep showin them you have it under control. but remember that old saying: don't cut off your nose to spite your face. what that means is really, who are you punishing by purposefully getting low or od-ing on the sugar? your parents, or you? the answer is, you!