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Thread: When to train teenagers to do their own night-time checks?

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02-09-2007, 04:29 AM

xMenace

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I am a: Type 1

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I'd do it before 13. In my experience their brains turn to mush on their 13th birthday. They don't start returning to the land of the living until 16-18.

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T1 1975, MM 722 pump

10/08
A1C 7/08 6.1%
HDL - 1.74 (67)
LDL - 1.89 (73)
Triglicerides - 0.52 (47.0)

7/08
A1C 7/08 5.9%
HDL - 1.55 (59.9)
LDL - 1.76 (68.1)
Triglicerides - 0.44 (40.0)

John