Maybe it's just that it takes different parents of children with diabetes different lengths of time until they finally "back off," as my son's endocrinologist so bluntly urged us to do at last visit.
Even after just a year into life as a pancreas, doctors and nurses focused a great deal of concern on Susanne and me. "Hello!" we wanted to say. "Child with diabetes standing in front of you! Can we just focus on him?"
"You need to get your sleep," they'd say.
"You shouldn't have to get up every night at 2 am," they'd say.
"If you don't take care of yourself, you won't be able to take care of him," they'd say (the fear mongers)
"Don't worry about us."
