Anonymous wrote:I feel for you, your son sounds like mine who has a mood disorder. Maybe that's the diabetes but if not, it explains why he is resistant to bring helped and taking care of his health.

How is his relationship with his diabetes doctor? Can you call him and see if he will have a serious discussion with him and get him on board with one of these other options?

Please get yourself some help with dealing with all of this. Your husband sounds useless, I wouldn't even bother with that.

Yes I think he likely does.

I feel for you, your son sounds like mine who has a mood disorder. Maybe that's the diabetes but if not, it explains why he is resistant to bring helped and taking care of his health.

How is his relationship with his diabetes doctor? Can you call him and see if he will have a serious discussion with him and get him on board with one of these other options?

Please get yourself some help with dealing with all of this. Your husband sounds useless, I wouldn't even bother with that.

Don’t let your husband pump and dump. Your son needs his father Home AND involved.
DH needs to dial back at work or find enough energy to work AND patent.
A years bonus or promotion is not worth your sons mental health.

Step up, dude!

OP, have you tried finding a support group for parents of teens with diabetes? Because the fact that he uses his medicine as a weapon against you I think is I think extremely problematic, but I don’t really know how to advise you to deal with it from a parenting perspective. If my children tried something like that there would be a huge consequence and they would lose all privileges for a long time, etc, but you seem to have a different type child from mine and I don’t know what it’s like to have that medicine card in play. It sounds like you really care and are trying, so I think he’s lucky to have you. Good luck.

Anonymous wrote:OP's sons meds (insulin)for Type 1 diabetes are not negotiable. He can't skip it on the weekends. Blood sugar goes up one point for every minute without insulin, so in a fairly short period of time, he would end up hospitalized or worse.

He doesn’t skip whole days only some meals