[Verified Answer]: Follow-up Appointment 6 months later, JS…

Follow-up Appointment 6 months later, JS meets with her pediatrician again. Upon asking, she admits to not taking her medicine regularly. She says that sometimes she thinks she doesn’t need it and other times she “just doesn’t want to rely on a medicine to make her body normal”. Her parents also add that she was just recently diagnosed with depression, which really worries them. She says she feels like she doesn’t fit in and can’t always do what all of her friends are doing. This is another reason, she says, that she isn’t compliant with her meds. Questions: 1. How does JS’ depression impact her diabetes? How does her diabetes impact her depression? (2) 2. How does JS’ diabetes impact her family? Elaborate on financial and social aspects. (2). 3. Provide 3 ways in which her friends and family can show support for JS as she deals with diabetes and depression. (3) 4. Provide 2 appropriate resources (could be websites, phone apps, books or other sources) JS could utilize to help better understand the disease and its potential complications if not well managed. These resources should have information to help convince JS of taking better care of herself and better manage her diabetes. (2) 5. Put yourself in JS’ shoes. How do you think you would feel living with diabetes as a 12 year old? What do you think would be most challenging for you? (2) 6. Write an additional question for this case study. It can be for either the initial visit or the follow-up appointment section. This should be a question that is not in the given list of questions. Be careful to ask a truly different question, not simply a rewording of a given question. (1 pt bonus)