Pills or injection children need everyday to stay alive?

Type I diabetes might - Meals are likely to be irregular. Her blood sugar could get dangerously low and result in a diabetic coma, and when they *do* feed her, she'd need an injection of insulin.

That's what I was thinking too!!!

Unless you want it to be seasonal so the kid would not be used to doing it on his/her own.

Then you could do severe asthma with the kid needing inhaler, breathing treatment and steriods every few hours.

Must have been typing slow. Maryn beat me to it!

I have not read a book about this, we live this life at my house from August to May.

So, it is possible. Good luck, let us know what you decide!!!!

Ok- the warmer weather- illness could be caused by seasonal allergies and cause respiratory issues...

colder weather- respiratory issues caused by the common cold, being around sick kids at daycare would increase chances of issues exponentially-

None of the meds we give the kids are injections.


Yes, a four-year-old would not be able to do this on her own.

Need a breathing treatment with machine ever 4 hours to stop the bronchial airway from closing. The meds are usually on-hand, but do expire if not used with-in a certian amount of time.


He glanced at the clock on the wall: almost four. His stepdaughter Anna would be home from school [daycare] any second and she'd need her [breathing treatment by six]. She'd had two [asthma] attacks in the past week, a result of the warmer weather [??]. If she had another without him around to administer the [treatment and the] steroids, she could die within minutes.

However if she is that far gone, she should not be in daycare.... unless it is a special daycare for kids with health issues.


Any other questions, cuz this is my thang???????

I'm sure you have this covered in other ways, but when a disease/illness is this life-threatening, I'd find it a suspension of disbelief that the kid is relying only on the ONE parent/guardian to get her the medicine.

Older kids, ones that are okay to be left alone after school, should also know how to handle it themselves if it's so essential.

A four-year old, for instance, I would be surprised to read goes home by herself (even if the father is SUPPOSED to be there) and then there's no babysitter/neighbor around who doesn't know how to administer the medicine.

Just something to think about, but like I said, I'm sure you have it covered.

Asthma can flare up during stressful situations regardless of the weather, so that might be a good option.

Some type of heart condition like palpitations or tachycardia might work. In a stressful situation it could become severe enough to have a heart attack from what I've read.

That's the first thing to mind - diabetes\insulin injections. There's also epilepsy (what's referred to as clonic tonics or grand mals), heparin pills for blood thinning due to cardiac conditions such as arrhythmia, myocardial disease, ventricular palpitations, valve replacement. Inhalers for cystic fibrosis, asthma (pills too called "boosts"), transplant patients who take meds for the rest of their lives to prevent organ rejections...