This all happened the week that Kitty started at nursery school. 'We had to pull her out to go to hospital to get her insulin sorted. Injections never have been a problem - if you treat it as something ordinary I don't think a child questions it. Kitty never struggled or made a fuss.
'No-one at the nursery really had to do much. The diabetic nurse went to explain to them about diabetes, but for the hours Kitty was there, there wasn't really a problem. What was difficult was if someone brought in a birthday cake -the staff didn't always think to keep it until later, when she could have an injection first. And they also needed to know that she might need water if her blood sugar levels were too high, or sugary foods if it dropped too low.
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