Home to Jealous Siblings

We left the hospital Monday evening & arrived home after the other kids went to bed. Andrew couldn't wait to see the kids in the morning and show off his stuff - old baseball cards from the courtesy cart, a stuffed Vanderbilt Champ mascot, and his "no-no" that covered his IV. Andrew wanted to put the no-no on & see if he could trick the kids into thinking his arm was broken. He also happily shared that he got to play in the playroom with Gene on the Playstation. I was proud that of all the horrible things he had been through, he chose to share the few good moments. We were in such constant training that he literally only got to play in the playroom one hour the entire time. The social worker had already told us that it was normal for siblings to be jealous of the constant attention required to manage diabetes, but we weren't expecting it to set in that fast. The kids felt like Andrew had been off having a great time with Mom & Dad's undivided attention while they sat at home without us. It didn't help that the training had only started and we were on the road to Vanderbilt quite a bit in the early days.