ok i need to know more about t1 misa but like how the toffolis deal with it and how they learn to trust sam with him
hi anon! yes absolutely i can delve into this.
so cat and toff were at first a little antsy when it came to having a billet kid with diabetes. but they'd also been made aware that, by this point at least, misa was practically managing everything by himself. his pump site changes, counting carbs, his blood sugar, ordering new supplies, all of that. so a good chunk of their worries fell away when they were given that news.
and then in comes misa, with an extra carry-on bag that's filled with nothing but his diabetes supplies. not even just supplies like needles and glucose tabs and glucagon injectors in the worst case scenario that he falls so low he faints, but the binder of step-by-step notes and FAQ his doctors gave to his parents when he was first diagnosed all the way back when he was 6. it has info ranging from how to calculate carbs properly to how many extra units to give in the case of ketones in the blood, when to call 911, a list of high blood sugar and low blood sugar symptoms, etc etc etc. misa brought it because even though he knows how to deal with it all by now, the toffolis might not, and, being michael misa, he wants to prepare them as much as possible so theyre as comfortable as possible.
toff is still worried at first, as he is with a lot of things when it comes to his billet son. he'll see misa walk into the kitchen and stagger a little bit and then he's immediately racing towards the fridge and shoving a juice box in his face because cmon michael, your blood sugar MUST be low for you to be walking like that. and misa just looks at him and shakes his head, showing him his dexcom app that has him firmly planted at an optimal 6.4 (which toff doesn't understand, considering the calculation difference from canada to the US, so misa has to go on explaining the conversion rates. 6.4 = 115 mg/dL)
cat starts buying more and more sugary snacks just in case misa falls low, and she stores what she knows are misa's favourites in a little wicker basket in the cupboard. it has a sign on it that says michael's hypoglycemia snacks written in big bold letters. cat takes this very seriously, and will glare at toff whenever he reaches inside of it. he doesn't do it often, but he still gets scolded when he does.
much like sam, both toff and cat downloaded the dexcom follow app onto their phones. cat trusts misa enough to manage himself, so she hardly ever checks it, whereas toff is a nervous wreck about it. for the first few months misa was living with them and he'd downloaded it, it was one of his most used apps. sometimes when misa would wake up from a particularly hard night of blood sugars (always low, going high and staying high, fluctuating an insane amount) toff corners him in the kitchen, while misa's hair is still all mussed from his pillow and he's still half-asleep, and goes were you keeping an eye on your blood sugar last night? did you notice it was on the edge of falling low? did you have a juice box by your bed? what about glucose tabs. michael, this is serious. i am your (billet) father and i care about you and they (the league) will also get really angry if you die. misa knows its just coming from a place of worry and care so he can't get too mad, but it really does feel like he's a kid again and that maybe toff doesn't trust him enough.
it's worse at practice, because sometimes toff will see misa pushing himself too hard and will skate over and go did you check your blood sugar? make sure you arent falling low, buddy. is your pump delivery set to sports mode? make sure it is set to sports mode please. you know what just turn it off entirely i dont want it to give you too much insulin and then you pass out right here in the middle of the ice of the SAP centre.
and don't even get me started on when sam 'dickins' dickinson gets involved in it. toff is, of course, skeptical of sam's concern whenever it comes to misa's diagnosis. sam doesn't care about anything like this, not really. he's always joking and never taking things seriously enough, so why is he suddenly making his voice all soft and putting a tender hand on misa's thigh while he whines over his blood sugar being too high for too long? who the hell does he think he is? this isn't sam...
but there is one time where they're at a practice and misa hadn't done too well in the previous game so now he's pushing himself further. and he'd had a bad blood sugar night that night, full of lows that he just couldn't get to stay above the 3.9 threshold. toff is keeping a close eye on him, as is sam, even though it doesnt seem like he is, because it never really seems like sam is taking anything seriously, at least in toff's eyes. but then misa gradually gets less coordinated until he's stumbling and sliding down the boards, collapsing into a heap on the ice, stick dropped and abandoned a few paces away from where he's fallen. sam is the first one on the scene, his keen michael misa is in danger sense alerting him before even misa himself knew what was happening. he's down on one knee, a hand cupping misa's cheek while his head sort of lolls downwards. he's shaking uncontrollably, and his eyes are hooded, and when sam tries to talk to him all he gets in return is a mumbled wha-? so he calls for someone to grab misa's emergency kit from his locker, and then when no one moves out of pure shock, he yells louder, and finally mack races to the locker room and comes back moments later with misa's little pouch of emergency things (two juice boxes, some glucose tabs, an extra pump, his manual blood sugar testing stuff, and his glucagon). sam has never used glucagon before, but when misa finally faints in his arms, going completely slack and unresponsive, sam frantically reads the label and gently inserts the tip of the nasal spray into misa's nose and pushes the plunger firmly until the green line disappears. he gently turns misa onto his side to prevent him from choking if he vomits and yells at someone to call the medic or 911, which collin does. after a few minutes though, misa finally wakes up, still shaking, and sam reaches into his emergency kit and pulls out a pack of pokemon gummies and a juice box and gingerly tells him hey mikey, welcome back buddy. here, drink this, eat these, and you'll feel better in no time, alright? you gave us a real spook back there, idiot.
and toff just stands at the back of the crowd, watching this all unfold, seeing how terrified sam was when misa hit the ground. and that's when he knows that yeah, sam's trustworthy enough. he'll take care of misa because that's what he loves to do, because he loves misa and misa loves him.
misa does get a real stern talking to when they get back from practice, though, which he only slyly grins and rolls his eyes at, i know, ty, i know, because sam kissed him in the passenger seat of his car when he drove him home and said he tasted like mango juice.
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