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Chapter 10
Using Process
Behavior Charts
TRACY SCOTT MANAGES
HIS BLOOD SUGAR
As you eat and drink, glucose enters your
bloodstream. Then your pancreas secretes
a hormone that allows your body’s cells
to convert the glucose to energy—unless
your pancreas doesn’t. If that hormone
doesn’t materialize, the glucose will just
sit there, and then you’ll be in trouble.
Tracy Scott’s pancreas didn’t secrete that
hormone. So several times a day, he had to
determine his glucose level and whether
he needed to inject the hormone—
insulin—directly into his bloodstream
with a needle. Such is the life of a person
with type I diabetes. And food wasn’t the
only ...