Matters of Life

How do you tell your child who was just diagnosed with an illness that she will have for the rest of her life to deal with it herself? How do you tell her to grow up and start taking responsibility for her life? Especially when she already has, about five years ago when this first began. Better yet how do you explain getting mad about where she has her training done for the injection because you want to me there to learn how to do the injection. Only you just end up sitting back, not even trying and deciding that you could never do that. I get that you are scared, but your twenty-one year old daughter is now injecting herself three times a week. After all that how do you expect to be involved but only when it is convenient for you? These are the unspoken yet written questions that float through my mind.