Teaching the class

Kailyn got to teach her class about her Diabetes yesterday. She did a demonstration of her lancing, glucose testing and her insulin shots. She was giggling while she told me how it went down. She told me the kids had a lot of good question like. "Have you had this your whole life?", "Does it hurt?" and "Where did you go to the hospital?", "Do you have to do this at home?" She said that one little girl said it was gross ( Kailyn was giggling when she said it) ,but the nurse told her it was not. She also explained how one little boy did not pay attention, but he never does so it did not surprise her.LOL I wish I could write how she told the story of her day. It was so funny and the look on her face was priceless. Seth and I want the kids in the class to know all about Diabetes because Kailyn has to do a lot of testing during class and eating when the others kids don't. They are big on confidentiallity now (everywhere), but Kailyn needs to know that there is nothing to be ashamed about and by educating the class she is letting them know why she is being treated differently, but that it is not a big deal. Of course, it is a big deal to us (the adults), but at some point we will be able to accept that diabetes is a part of what makes up Kailyn and always will be.