Roommate "found someone better" and moved out. What can we do?

romanigypsyeyes
Sat, 20 Sep 2014 19:56:29 +0000

^ My cousin, a freshman in college, has a CGM. She has had it for a few years now because no matter how much she and her mother (a gastroenterologist) tried, she was still having problems detecting spikes and dives. She used to have to wake up every day at like 2-3 AM because she was plummeting a few times a month in the middle of the night. It does have the alarm and it went off once when she was spending a week with me. Yowwie.

Her roommate knows about it and she told her roommate about it as soon as they were paired up together. She said she told her roommate that she would be more than understanding if she didn’t want to have a roommate with an occasionally obnoxious monitor. The roommate apparently was more thrilled that she didn’t have to worry about my cousin coming back to the room trashed (my cousin has zero interest in alcohol and I don’t think that will change) than she cared about the monitor so they’ve been rooming together. So far, so good (a month+ later).

My cousin would never expect her roommate to administer an emergency injection or to know when she’s getting sick. So, she checks in with her parents every night. Her parents are extremely overprotective (this was the case long before the diabetes diagnosis) so they require she Skypes every night. I think it’s too much but it works for them.