Sports, sleepovers, and the CGM that beeps at 2am
Exercise lows, sleepover anxiety, and learning to trust the tech without handing it the whole steering wheel.
At fifteen my life got busier and my blood sugar got opinions about it. Exercise would drop me hours later, usually right around when I fell asleep. The CGM alarm at 2am became a running joke in my house, except it wasn't really a joke.
Sleepovers were their own thing. The first few I just didn't go. Then I figured out a quiet system with a couple of friends' parents. Independence with type 1 isn't doing everything alone, it's building a net so you can do more things.
The technology is incredible and I'm grateful for it. But I also had to learn that a graph is information, not a grade. A bad day on the screen is not a bad job by me.
Brooke's chapters are personal lived experience shared to make people feel less alone. They are not medical advice and do not describe a treatment plan. Talk to your own care team about your numbers, devices, and decisions.
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