Your message touched me. My mother and I love each other but we are both fiercely independent and she refuses to learn anything about diabetes. I have told her once, I have told her a thousand times, when I am hypo I need to eat NOW!!! not in an hours time and I do NOT need insulin then! She still does not get it! And when I am high, during an infection or something, then she will say that I need to eat!
But she too has not had the easiest of lives, some of it self inflicted, others not so. I am the only one here for her now - my sister fell out with her 6 or 7 years ago over her drinking and has moved to America. She did not have an easy childhood, being a victim of Stalin's regime and coming to live in England without her mother at the age of 15 ........... so perhaps I should be a bit more gentle with her! Thanks for the timely reminder! Bless you and I hope you will both continue to grow closer.