Where are your 5th graders with diabetes at in the grand scheme of "total dependent care to complete self care?"
I have a 5th grade student who is almost exclusively dependent for care (my first year with them). They've been diagnosed for at least 4 years, so this is not new. For every "issue" I present or that comes up (ie, you're on the bus and you feel low and you don't have your supplies, insulin calculation, carb counts, to not even giving themselves insulin yet) it's "well, I'd ask my mom and she would do it for me" My response is always, no what do YOU do, not your mom. She looks at me like I have 3 heads. It's just not sinking in with her.
Thankfully we have her 504 meeting coming up, so I am going to discuss things to work on with mom (and wins too, because there are lots of those). BUT, I want to know...what do you expect from your 5th graders with diabetes? Am I being too hard? I've never had a 5th grader with diabetes prior to this year, but the 6th graders that I have had in the past have all been 90% INDEPENDENT. She is nowhere close to there. It scares me knowing that I won't be here next year and I am not confident they'll be able to find a nurse to replace me.
