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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lilly___01" data-source="post: 2700833" data-attributes="member: 588591">Hello,My name is Lilly and I am 17 years old,I don’t know who to talk to, so I'm trying here.Just two years ago, my sister was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. She was eleven years old and this announcement completely changed her life and that of my family.I have always been close to my sister and even more since she is sick and needs us. Being her big sister, I want to protect her but I know that I could not protect her. Especially since in the current situation, protecting her from a disease is complicated. That's why I'm referring to you; I'd like to lighten him on a daily basis in the management of his illness but I'm not sure how to do it. I already help her prepare her equipment to sting herself and we help her calculate her carbohydrates (she also does very well on her own). On the other hand, I am afraid that our help, to my family and me will become too heavy for my sister, especially since she will be 13 years old and will return to adolescence. Even if for the moment she manages her illness masterfully, there will come a time when she will have to endure the eyes of others in a period when her body will change (hello adolescence).She is quite secret about what can happen in college and I know that she has already suffered remarks about her diabetes. (For the story, she did gymnastics in college and boys approached her to say: "What are you doing, aren't you going to pretend to faint yet? Go back and eat your pieces of sugar..." and they walked away laughing. When she told me that, I felt really sad for her. She must, in addition to managing her illness, manage the eyes of others (as soon as you are at the restaurant some looks are really insistent), the inappropriate remarks and take everything without flinching. In a sense, she impresses me I must say; she has to sting herself 5 times a day, look at her blood sugar all the time, not be able to eat what she wants when she wants... You (my sister and diabetics) you are really incredible (type 1 believerable... sorry for the joke, she was better in my head...) and I think we don't tell you enough.Too many people consider that this disease is not so impactful, while it is. Afterwards, I must say that before being directly related to the disease, I was not really interested in it... Moreover, I would like to become a researcher, and why not specialize in the fight against diabetes!All this to say that if you have ideas so that I can best support my sister without being too invasive, I am a taker (and also special activities for diabetics!)Already thank you for reading everything and thank you in advance for your answers ;-)Friendly and waiting for answers,Lilly</blockquote>

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