• The social worker is not just a nice person there to listen to our problems.  She is establishing if we can take care for our child. 

• Marc and I went to another training class yesterday.  We had to complete a lot of paperwork around our attendance.  They even noted in the records that Marc missed part of the class (we had a snafu with one of our cars adn he needed to pick up the kids from school). 

• Furthermore... the Hga1c test.  Well, yeah it tells you if the blod sugar was running high over a period of time but, it also is a way for the care team to confirm that we are being honest with our record keeping.  Never thought of it this way. 

Caring for a diabetic child (or caring for yourself if you are a diabetic) is not easy (it isn't really hard but...).  It requires a reasonable understanding of math, general problem solving and some understanding of the biology of the human body, as well as the capacity to pick up some basic nursing skills.  The sad part is that I could compeltely see how a family could not be able to get a handle on things and perhaps run the risk of losing their child because they could not care for him.