The woman walks back through the quiet house to Grace’s room. It just depends on what’s going on with her. Sometimes we have to check her every 15 minutes for a few hours, or every hour for 10 hours. She walks through the house back into her bedroom. Woman stands at the kitchen counter making notes. Her pancreas is dead, and it died all the sudden and it becomes very life-threatening, very fast. That’s the best we can do, is checking her, correcting her, checking her, correcting her. And by very dangerous I mean, you know, she could die. The woman checks Grace’s blood levels as she sleeps.Įvery five or six hours can be very dangerous. She’s a volatile Type one and she hasn’t really stabilized. Type one diabetes represents, I think the last figure I heard is five percent of all diabetics in the world. My husband and I take turns on duty, and on duty means we check her blood glucose levels through the night.
The woman arises and turns it off and walks into the kitchen and prepares to check Grace’s levels. It turns to 12:00am and an alarm goes off. Shots in another bedroom where a clock reads 11:59pm. But between Jackie alerting her at night and the artificial pancreas, I’m almost sure I can let her go. She wants to break away and we’re in this point where we’re training her to be independent and yet, she’s still a child and we have to hover. And she rolls her eyes, especially as she’s becoming an adolescent. And it’s the opposite as I used to be as a mom. Grace feeds Jackie grilled chicken from Chic-fil-a and then they sit on the bed and watch The Office on Netflix. She doesn’t like her whole tail being brushed too much. We wanted to put as many layers of protection as possible between what could happen with Grace, and what will happen with Grace. What if she wants to go to college? Or what if she wants to move out someday, and she doesn’t have a roommate that would act as kind of a protector? So we decided to invest in Jackie for added insurance, or assurance. I think Jackie is what started my crazy dog loving thing. Like, that I don’t remember being this happy before, I don’t remember liking dogs this much before. When I got Jackie, like a lot of things changed for me.
They play a bit of frisbee and then the girl brushes the dog. The girl walks across a yard carrying a frisbee. And I’m very comforted I have Jackie because she catches things like that a lot.Ĭlose up of Jackie watching the girl intently. If my blood sugar goes below twenty, I’ll um, go into a seizure or a diabetic coma and if I’m not rushed to the hospital then I would just die. Lay down.Ĭlose up shots of diabetes gear, wide shot of girl drinking a juicebox. She alerts to my blood sugars when they’re fluctuating, and will give me a paw and let me know, because I can’t really feel it that often.Ī giant lumbering prehistoric golder retriever ambles into the wide shot.īen, you’re not getting anything. Jackie is my diabetic alert dog, and my other half. The girl is standing at the kitchen counter checking her blood levels while the dog watches attentively. Is it ok if I get up and check really quick? Even though I still do, but I try not to. I guess I don’t take things for granted as much. um, guess I don’t know, things like that. I guess I kind of appreciate the little things more and. One day I could be here and one day I could just not, so. And it’s just scary, like, things like that. I recently had a friend pass away from it, and she was my age.
No matter how hard you try to explain the difference between the two, people are always just gonna mistake you for a type 2, and then it just.I don’t even like try to explain anymore, like ‘oh, did you eat too much sugar, is that why you’re diabetic?‘, and I’m like, ‘nope’.Ĭut back to the girl speaking. They thought it was the flu so they just sent me back to school. The girl pulls down the top of the photo, which reveals itself to be a homemade cup holder. It’s kind of overwhelming to say it, but that is the way she lives. But typically with lows, this is our friend: Juice.Ĭlose up shots of diabetic supplies on the counter. Course, if we’re using this, 911’s on the way.
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If she’s gonna go swimming, we prep her site with skin prep wipes. So, sometimes she’ll take a shot with what’s called a “flexpen“. The woman enters frame left with more boxes. The girl picks the cat up and sets it on the floor.
A big rude orange cat jumps up on the counter. The insulin goes into the reservoir, the reservoir is attached to the tubing, then to her pump, then into her body. So, to change her, uh, pump site.the pump she wears, the tubing needs to be changed every couple of days. A middle-aged woman enters from frame left carrying a bunch of boxes. Transcript Midnight Three & Six This short documentary shows a mother’s efforts to manage her daughter’s daily struggle with a life-threatening condition: Type I diabetes.Ī teenage girl stands at a kitchen counter looking bored.