Question from Crystal Lake, Illinois, USA:

I have type 1 diabetes. I just started high school this year. My high school is pretty big, and when I’m low I don’t like too walk far because it doesn’t make me feel good. When I am low, I go to the nurse’s office to check my blood sugar and I always take a shot before lunch. But, sometimes when I go to the nurse’s office, there is a sign on the door that says she�s in a meeting down in the guidance office. That is all the way downstairs. Why should a diabetic have to walk downstairs, even with a buddy, to get the nurse and go back up stairs? I mean what if a kid with asthma had a asthma attack and she wasn’t in her office that would be horrible and even for me, a diabetic, I don’t want to have to walk downstairs to get her. I feel I would be putting myself at a huge risk of doing that. How should I approach her about this problem and talk to her about it?