This past week while my husband was shopping he had bought a pack of cookies. The next morning while I was getting my four children ready for school, I got a cookie before I could eat it my ten year old son yelled "Don't eat that mommy it can kill you!" I just laugh at him and told him everything was OK. Later that I was on twitter talking to a women about what he had said to me. She told me how this was a real fear that some children have, and act different ways to.
I'm a type two diabetic plus come of a long line of diabetics in my family. My own father died young, lost both legs to diabetes.
After talking to my husband about what our son had said we called a family meeting. We asked all four kids what they was worried about due to my diabetes. It helped that I had been to my Endocrinologist the week before. After letting every kid talk. Then we talked to them about yes I do have diabetes but I was health and had no plains of ever leaving right now. We told them with a controled diet, exercise, talking my medicine, plus keeping good glucose numbers that I could live a long healthy life. We also told them as years go by somethings could change my health but as of now, I'm healthy and nothing would change as I'm not going any where plus I loved them all very much.
