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You know you're the parent of a child with diabetes when ...

1. Your non-D child refers to all numbers as carbs - "I'm 3 carbs old!"
2. Your six-year-old child announces that she didn't get high at that party and you know exactly what she meant, but the person next to you just looks at the two of you with a concerned face.
3. You are watching a football game and report that your team is behind by 4 units and nobody thinks a thing of it.
4. You wake up in the night, see the projection clock that says "5:30" and you think your child's blood sugar is 530!
5. You find Cake Mate in the bedroom of your non-D child for when he's low.
6. You notice someone giving you a concerned look and realize that they have overheard your cell phone conversation with your teen daughter that went something like this: "You are high? You were high last night too at about this time."
7. Your son opens the car door at church and laughs because there's a test strip on the parking lot - and of course it's the type you use!
8. The stray dog who has parked himself on your deck has only been there 10 minutes and already has a test strip attached to his fur!
9. In public your teenager announces they're high and you hand them a syringe.
10. Your 6-year-old is given many colors of modeling clay and told she can create anything she wants and she chooses to make a meter, lancet and cotton ball for her diabetic teddy bear.

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