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The Case of brittle diabetes...

Leslie was a fourteen year old girl who had had diabetes for nine years. She had been having some recent difficulties at school and was not getting along well with her parents. Perhaps it was for these reasons that when her sugars went all to pieces - with frequent highs and equally frequent lows - both her parents and her doctor blamed her for it. "You must not be giving your insulin" they told her. Other times they told her "you are intentionally overdosing yourself." Well, as you can imagine, Leslie didn't take this very well and her relationship with her family (and her doctor) got even worse. She would hotly reply to them that she "was taking my insulin just the way I am supposed to." Leslie had read about brittle diabetes and was convinced that that was the problem.

One day, Leslie ended up in the emergency with yet another insulin reaction. As she sat on the examining table in her hospital gown, a very clever intern came in the room to see her. The intern took one look at Leslie and said to her "Leslie, the chart says you've been having erratic blood sugars. And that you've been accused of not giving your insulin properly. And that you think you have brittle diabetes. Well, I think all those things are wrong. The reason for your poor sugar control is obvious to me."

Leslie looked at the intern with disbelief. How could this doctor know so quickly what the problem was? And how did the doctor know that Leslie was truly giving her insulin just like she was supposed to? Leslie wondered.

So, dear reader, over to you. What was it that the intern saw in that quick glance at Leslie that let her so quickly figure out what the problem was?

Did the intern see:

1. A pool of blood on the floor 2. Illegal drug paraphernalia 3. Discarded insulin syringes on the bed 4. Leslie's legs

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