a/n:long chapter, i had to do a some research for this chapters so please vote, and even though i did research some things may not be something that really happens, so im sorry if there is some unrealistic things and i really dont mean to hurt someone.
⚠️tw: blood, needles, doctors, hospitals, throwing up ⚠️
age: 9
SADIE POV
im worried about Y/N, she was always so happy and energetic but ever since jacey was born and i started my acting career she just started being a little left out, well i understand that she feels like that since jacey is only 7 she needs more attention and mom and dad are always needing to go with me on sets and everything since im still a minor.
i always try to do my best to be there for my siblings
but anyways thats not what's worrying me now, im worried because Y/N is sick and she looked this sick since last year or something but it became way worse these days
last year she just said she was often tired but we didnt really mind, untill she lost a lot of weight but we still thought it was only because of her frequent dance classes
now she cant get out of bed of tiredness, she is skinnier than a stick and is vomiting everything she eats, she complains her vision is super blurry and she is super thirsty at all times i think only today she already drank around 7 full water bottles and is still 4pm!
i talked to mom but she said that shes faking for attention because shes jealous of jacey, i dont think thats what actually happens me and my brothers are worried about her but our parents seems like they dont care which pisses me off sometimes
anyways, today and yesterday i didnt left Y/N side, im always here to help her and my brothers are here all the times too, what made us sure that she wasn't faking is when she refused to go to dance, she is obsessed over dancing and competing I know for fact that she wouldn't skip a class when she was faking something
I don't care about my mom telling me that she is faking, if she get worse me and Mitchell are taking her to the doctor and probably my older siblings because they drive
I was cuddling with her and caressing her hair and then she finished her next water bottle
"I'm still thirsty can you grab me some water say?" she said with a tired voice, it broke my heart to see my baby sister this sick but my heart always melt when she call me the nickname she gave me "say"
I got her water bottle and got to fill it up, right when I got in her room she ran to the toilet crying, I didn't understand until I heard some gag sounds I ran up behind her and held her hair while at least trying to comfort her
"it's okay baby, it's alright I'm right here" I said rubbing her back
when she finished her throwing up I helped her brush her teeth and change pjs, then I felt like it has already reached an enough point it's the 5 time she threw up today!! she's extremely light it looks like she doesn't eat but she does
then I rested her back on the bed and she was fast asleep, but it looks like she was in some sort of pain I don't know but it hurted to see her that way
"mitchell come here" I said but not loudly to keep
Y/N sleeping
"yeah?" he awnsered
"she threw up for the 5 time and is just getting worse, we got to take her to the doc" I told to him
"it's still 4pm you sure we need to go still today?" he said and sat by my side
"just look at her face, she's in clearly pain"
"sads, you know how much she's afraid of needles and doctors she's going to be super scared there"
"I know but it's necessary, go tell caleb, spencer isn't home today I'll change her clothes and wake her up" I said and he nod and left the room
well, since mom and dad are both working rn we got to take her to the hospital by ourselves
"Y/N sweetie wake up" I said shaking her slightly
"I'm tired sads" she pout
"honey we got to go to the doctor to make you feel better" I said
she looked at me with a tired look and just nod her head which shocked me, normally she would start freaking out because she is so scared of hospitals but she's probably feeling so bad that she just agreed
I changed her into this with a white t shirt:
"there won't be any needles right?" She asked me while I brushed her hair
"we don't know sweetie but I think there won't be any, it's probably just a check up" I reassured her
"okay, but you promisse to be with me all the time?"
she asked with a little glossed eyes
"I will baby, and don't cry okay?" I told her wiping her eyes she just nod
time skip
at the hospital
still Sadie POV
the doctors did a quick check up on her and said that they think is something but they can't be sure about it before a bloodwork, which we are heading to the room now to take it
y/n doesn't know where we are going she's just following us
then we arrive at the room and they told us to sit her on the chair, she glanced at me, she knew what this chair was about
"no, no no no no no" she said and grabbed my hand going behind me, I turned around to face her and there were tears falling down her cheeks I sit down to her height and wiped her tears
"baby I will hold you and be there with you I promise, there is no need to be worried and it's going to be super fast you won't even have time to feel it" I tried to say in the most comforting way but it's hard to comfort someone when you know it's going to hurt her, she's so skinny that the needle might touch her bone
I sat on the chair and picked her up, placing her in my lap with her back facing me it hurted just to see how light she was
then I took off her hoodie and some tears fell down her cheek
"NO NO NOOO" she started
I just held her tighter making her can't move so now she was kicking her legs slightly
Spencer is calling mom on the hallway, Mitchell is holding y/n arm
then the doctor came with the needle, I held her head and turned her face on the opposite side of the needle so she couldn't see, and then the doctor placed the needle inside her arm, making her start to sob in pain
all of us were sad because it's not nice seeing you baby sister suffer like this, I really hope that her diagnosis don't need any shots or something
then the doctor finished and placed a bandaid on her arm
"all done! I will tell the nurse to come here to bring you to her room, we will ask you to stay overnight in case she gets worse and since the results will be given tomorrow morning you should be released at the morning, oh and someone needs to be with her overnight since she's still a kid" he told us
then I turned the sniffling y/n around so she could face me but still on my lap, I looked at her hurt face and just hugged her tightly until she stopped sniffling and I felt her body getting heavier, she probably fell asleep, I looked at her sleeping face before Mitchell picked her up resting her on his hip
some time later the nurse brought us to our room and we decided that I will spend the night here while they go home and tell mom and dad, y/n is still sleeping
time skip next day
still sadie POV
I woke up on my sister bed hugging her, yesterday she woke up when the nurse put some IV on her hand, but it wasn't a big deal she slept fastly after that
now its 9am, visit time so the rest of the family can come here
then the door opened and mitchell, Caleb and Spencer entered the room, I gave them a confused look on why our parents aren't here for their daughter
"oh, mom had to take care of Jacey and she said 'you guys shouldn't take her to the hospital she was just trying to get attention' and dad had to go to work." he said, I feel bad for this kid she literally is sick in the hospital and her mother still don't believe her
"oh my god mom is so awful sometimes" I replied and then I noticed y/n waking up
"wakey wakey sleepyhead" I told her and she sat on the bed and then she started shaking her hand with the IV
"no, no baby don't do this is going to hurt you" I said holding her hand
"bu-but it's hurting say" she said
"I know bubba, I know" I said and hugged her
some time later the doctor arrived our room to tell us the results, I really hope that it isn't something big and that she doesn't have to take and type of shots, that girl already suffered enough with that phobia
"so um, we got the results back from the lab and I wanted to tell you before we discharge you that it isn't going to be easy and you will have to be really strong" he said looking to y/n
what did he mean by "be strong???" what the fuck
"but what does she have?" mitchell asked the doctor
"oh yeah sorry, so looking at her exams we saw that her pancreas isn't producing insulin and her glicemy level is super elevated. Heading us to the diagnosis of type 1 diabetes"
my heart sank to my stomach, she is so little she doesn't deserve to live like this for the rest of her life, it's so incredibly unfair
"SO I CANT EAT CANDY ANYMORE????" y/n almost yelled, I chuckled poor little girl doesn't know she will have to deal with at least 7 needles a day
"it doesn't work like that, you can eat candy it's just that you have to eat it in small quantities" he said and y/n sighed in relief
"oh so it's alright, can we go home now????" she said
"you can but first I'll need to talk to your siblings for a little" he said and we all go to the hallway
"so, I already noticed that she have a needles phobia, we can try to ask for less shots but I don't think we will be able, and she may experience some anxiety and if her mental health goes a little down she can also experience depression, even though she's little it's possible since it is a triggering topic to her and it's literally up with you guys which are her family if this is going to be traumatic or this is going to be only a part of her life" he said making me tear up
we all just stood there in silence, not knowing what to do I think the doctor noticed since he said something again
"okay so, the oldest of you could go there at the front desk to sign her out please and the hospital will give you guys the first sensor and insulin pen and everything, we don't recommend using a pump at her age because she needs to gain more weight before she can use it, until she gain some weight the needles are likely to hurt more than usual but if she gain some weight it will be alright" he said
"wait but we don't know how to use those things" Spencer said
"it's really not hard you just need to read the label, I don't exactly know how to use it but it's all written there, and with all that said I think you guys are all set to go" he said and left,
Spencer quickly headed to the front desk and I just took some deep breaths, now I'll need to be my sister mom until my actual mom decide to care about her
I headed back to the room and y/n was already changed and brushing her hair
"someone here is ready" I said giggling
"yeah, I'm feeling way better with this insulin thing on the tube thing in my arm" she said placing a headband on her hair
"alright then, we'll I think the nurse will come here to take this out of you so we can go home!" I said and the door behind me opened it showing a grumpy looking guy, he was probably the nurse
"sit down so I take your IV out of you" he said and y/n quickly sat down at the bed
I grabbed her non IV hand and held I'd whispering
"squeeze my hand as tight as you can" I said
then the guy just ripped the bandage out making y/n whine, that guy was creepy but anyways he took the needle without any warning making some blood escape y/n hand then he placed a tiny bandage on her hand
I was feeling my hand being super squeezed at the moment but I couldn't care less
then when he finished he just left and didn't said anything, that was weird
"ugh finally done, now no more needles for a LONG time" she said and I instatenely felt bad, little does she know that this is just the begging
time skip
at home
our family isn't home yet, so it's only us and y/n complained that her vision is kinda blurry, I think we should talk to her now about all this and put the sensor on her
mom came home but really didn't listen to us and dad is still working
So me and Mitchell sat on her bed to talk to her
"hey baby" I said
"Hey" she replied
"we wanted to talk to you about something" mitchell
told her
"okay, tell me" she replied
Mitchell gave me a 'you go' look so I decided to start
"remember what the doctor told us? that you have diabetes, so since you have diabetes you gotta wear q sensor on your belly or arm or leg you choose, you gotta use this sensor so we can know if there is too much or too less sugar on your blood, if it is too high you would need to use a tiny tiny pen" I said trying to be as comforting as possible
"okay then" she said which surprised me I think she didn't got that they all have needles
"wanna put it on?" mitchell asked and she nod
he came back with the sensor he bought and then
y/n realized it's not a sticker
"it is a needle?" she said and I nodded making her eyes tear up fastly
"shh don't cry okay it won't hurt it's a super tiny needle" I tried to comfort her
"I don't want to be with that thing on me all alone" she said and some tears fell down her cheek
then I had an ideia
"what if I use it too? we both put them on and you won't be alone" I said and her face immediately changed, I think she just needed to know that she won't be doing this alone
I looked at Mitchell and he said that he will grab another one for me
when he came back with the supplies I felt a little scared because I don't really trust my brother enough to do that but it's alright
then I decided to do on my stomach, it would be easier y/n was watching it
"aren't you scared say?" she asked while Mitchell swapped my stomach with some kind of desinfectant wipe
"I'm not, I know it won't hurt and you'll see it" I replied and then Mitchell came back with the sensor and it was all ready to apply it it just needed to press the button
"I'm just going to position it"mitchel said placing the sensor on my stomach and I felt something sticky on it, then I held my hand for y/n to hold it
"can you hold my hand?" I asked and she smiled and held it, I think she was feeling alone and useless which broken my heart since she's so little
then I heard the button click and I closed my eyes tight when didn't felt anything I felt like someone touched my belly, only
then y/n asked
"did it hurt???"
"actually I didn't felt anything" I said and chuckled
"now you need to choose one of these stickers too!" she said
I nod and choosed one of them, then y/n placed it on me still smiling
It looked like this
and then when it was y/n turn she grabbed my hand and rested her head on my lap while pulling her shirt up
mitchel did the cleaning and y/n didn't care when he pressed the button she gripped my hand tightly but quickly released it
then she looked at me and I saw, no tears or scared face now she was happy and giggling saying that it didn't hurted
"I'm so proud of you baby, so so proud" i said and pecked her forehead
then she chooses the sprinkles sticker
then I realized it was going to be hard, but she is brave enough to go though this.