As one who has handled being a very brittle diabetic for 31 years, I can assure you the shots are not any more a 'hardship' than combing your hair or brushing your teeth - you cease to 'think' about it, and do it as casually as opening a door.
Blood testing on the fingers?
Twenty-three years now, since the home test kits first became available....those, too, are 'nothings.'
There will be real challenges for her in the very structured school environment, but I'm sure her parents have talked with her teacher (and the school nurse) to explain her various needs, and what to watch for during her time there...most especially signs of insulin reactions developing, requiring immediate attention.
I imagine her mother makes sure she *ALWAYS* has a source of candy in a ZipLock bag WITH her everywhere she goes .
If not reversed promptly, they can rapidly reach a state where she cannot focus and treat herself...if 'out of it' or unconscious, others can squeeze Karo syrup or honey into the inside of her cheek to be absorbed until real help can be given.
Has her physician prescribed for her "emergency glucagon kits" (to quickly elevate her blood glucose) to carry to be administered?
Always have one with her teacher/school nurse/family for her?
I have never been the least bit embarrassed to pluck a sweet drink (juice; Sunny-D; etc.) and bag of cookies from shelves in a grocery store and slurp/wolf them down, knowing I don't have the luxury of 'time' to delay; or to sit in the car and administer a glucagon injection to myself (kit *always* in my pocketbook, as is a bag of spice drops) before the final curtains descend.
Oddly enough, no one ever raised an eyebrow, nor did the checkout clerks who rang up the 'badly damaged' goods - LOL
The joy is the fact there are great strides being made right now in the treatment of this monster!
Your Kailey might well be on the front of the wave of those for whom the tide is turned...
You have got everything down...you could have been Kailey's "coach"...
Yes, she went to a meeting with the teacher and nurse last night...and myself, her other grandmother and her great-grandmother take turns going up on her lunch hour to make sure she eats all of her lunch (she gets too distracted talking with friends to trust her to get her carbs)...
We all carry candy, cake icing(she doesn't like honey), apple juice and glucogone with us wherever we go. she is very scary...she can be running across the room with her normal energy...but will just pass out without notice when her blood sugar gets too low..she has scared me many times...that is why we test her so often.
She isn't allowed to go anywhere at the school without a "buddy" that goes with her...in case something happens, the buddy can go get help.
I keep finding articles here on Free Republic about new treatments and I print them off and give them to my son and daughter in law...but of course, her mother and all do the same thing...LOL They get lots of help from the family!!!
I do so appreciate it when you post to me like you did tonight, it makes me feel a lot better about Kailey's future.
Have a great weekend, Lady---and I always include you in MY prayers!
God Bless you,
sleuth