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“ My daughter is 11 and was just diagnosed in August 2010. She wears the Omni Pod and she is VERY independent with her management,but she gets VERY angry when I ask her if she remembered to cover.”
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Here's a game Dawn, from Ohio, came up with to help her 11 year old daughter:
we have come up with a new "game" to enter her boluses into her meter. It goes like this...she gets her food and I ask her "how much do you owe for your meal today, ma'am?". She'll reply with the number of carbs to cover (she is EXCELLENT at her calculations!), and I'll take her meter and enter the number. Then, before I confirm the bolus, I show the meter to her to check her "total" and ask her to "sign here, please" and either she'll press confirm or just say ok. It's made it a lot better! I don't have to sound like a nag always asking if she's "covered". Now I can play and say, " do you need to pay for that?". Hey, whatever works!!!
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