Blood Sugar

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AN: so me and @Jaime_prolific2 came up with this idea when she gave me the idea and after 2 seconds i had an idea and structure for it, and then yesterday i had written it in my head and well it was typed up very quickly, i really worked my 'Houdini Magic' on this one and I hope you like it.

This is written with a bit of 'Tasha Houdini Magic'  

TW:  low blood sugar, needles and injecting medicine 

You were in the preschool room with Winter helping the children with an activity when you heard the door open and you saw Autumn walk in with a parent and child "Y/N can you come here please" you heard Autumn ask you which you quickly make your way over to her "yes Autumn" you say to her with a small smile on your face "this is Andrea and her son James, he is the new starter I told you about this morning" you heard Autumn explain and you smile at the mother "hi, I'm Y/N its nice to meet you and James" you say to the mother before turning your attention back to Autumn when you heard her speak "James here is going to be your key child, he doesn't have any allergies or intolerances but he does have type 1 diabetes and has a insulin pump" you heard Autumn explain and you nodded your head at her "okay, I have worked with children in the past who had type 1 diabetes and I know what to look out for" you say to Autumn and the mother whilst keeping a certain secret to yourself and saw the mother relax slightly at your words. You crouch to the ground and smile at James "hi I'm Y/N, you must be James" you say softly with a smile at the little boy and see him smile at you "hi" you heard him say quietly which made you smile at "shall we go join everyone in the painting activity" you ask him and hold out your hand for him to take and watched as he reached for your hand and you stood up before leading him to the table after he said goodbye to his mum, you helped James get situated and sat next to him at the table and introduced him to everyone and watched as he joined in with the activity with everyone else.

A few hours into the day you felt someone tap your leg and looked over to see James next you "you okay" you asked him when you saw him look a bit pale and saw him shake his head and you stood up and took him to a quiet corner "Winter can you come here for a minute" you ask over your shoulder to Winter and you see him come over to you "is everything okay" you hear Winter say to you "I'm checking James is blood sugar are you okay to witness it" you ask him and pull out James's Dexcom reader and pulled his sleeve up pf his shirt where the pump was and scanned it to get a reading of his blood sugars "its low, could you get a snack for him, like juice or an apple" you say to Winter before sitting next to James on the floor and see Winter rush off for a minute "your okay James, your levels are low okay, but with a small snack or juice it should go up" you say to James and feel him lean into you slightly and take the juice and small snack off Winter and see him go back to the group of preschoolers "right lets take a small sip of this and a bite of this snack" you say to James and help him take a sip of the juice and pass him the snack for him to eat slowly. You sit with James and take out your own reader and show it to him "I know what it's like, I also have the same as you and know how scary it can be sometimes" you explain to James and show him your own pump on your shoulder which you let him scan so he can see that it's okay to be scared of something that is out your control "I notice you have a plain sticker around your pump, how about when I go for my lunch I will get my stickers and let you choose one" you ask James and see him smile up at you with a nod of his head "right let's check your levels so we can go back to learning" you say to him whilst helping him scan his scanner and smiled when you saw his levels were back to normal "let's go have fun" you say to him and put your scanner back in your pocket and put James's scanner in his holder he had for it before letting him go back to playing with everyone and you followed behind him with a chuckle.

You had come back to the room after your break and had a 3 designs that you thought James would like and you see him come over to you "I have those plasters for your scanner, which one do you want" you say to him when you kneel down to his height and show him the 3 designs and saw him look at them all "we have robots, jungle or army" you say and point to each design and showed him your own sticker "I have pink army" you say and show him your plaster which was pink and beige "army" you heard him say and saw him point to the green and beige version of yours "so we match" you heard him explain and you put the other two designs down and gently place the plaster around his scanner and smoothed it out on his arm "I'll put these ones in your tray so you can take them home" you say and move to put the other designs with his belongings in his tray "thank you" you heard him say which you smiled at "your very welcome" you say to him and saw him run back to playing and you followed behind him and joined the group in the book corner. Sitting in the corner you felt a tap and heard "Y/N" being said by a little voice say and you turn to see a little girl looking at you "yes Jessica" you say to her and see her look at your arm "what are on yours and James's arm" you heard her say and see her point to your scanner "well these are scanners that help me and James monitor something called blood sugar since our bodies can't work properly so we need to help it and these scanners help us monitor the levels so we can give it what it needs to work" you explain to Jessica and see the other preschoolers sitting down in front of you as you explain "so they are little robots" you heard another preschooler ask "yeah, they are little robots that help keep me and many others like myself and James safe" you say with a nod of your head "that is cool" you heard multiple voices say which caused you to laugh at "I know, let me show you how it works" you say and pull out the scanner and pulled up your sleave slightly, not realising Winter was watching you, and showed the preschoolers how it works and what the numbers mean on the scanner and let each preschooler scan it and you felt like you had educated them on something that they wouldn't normally know at this age but you felt like you had helped James and yourself become more confident and you laughed when you saw James showing off his scanner and pump to his new friends.

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