It helps if your brother is fairly cooperative, too. Take notes and insist that you be able to reach them whenever you need advice. You'll do fine.

I thought for sure I could never do it, but it's pretty easy. The needles these days are very kind to the body. Just talk to your brothers, see if they rotate the injection area and how they determine the amount of insulin to be delivered.

This should also include glucose testing, which is drawing blood from his finger to the test strip.

Let us know how it goes.

If your brother is taking insulin and not one of the new types of insulin, such as Victoza or Lantus. It might be time to talk to Doctor and see if your brother is a candidate for one of the new types, which sometimes are just 1 injection per day.

y'all are making me feel much better

the plunger.

The trickier part would befiguring out how much insulin to match with the meter reading.
There are many youtubes showing all this stuff. Watch them, then have your wannabe vacationing brother show you the details...
I'm guessing this will go fine.

I will check that out!

1. Your brother must be used to getting these injections.
Right?
2. They'll show you where and how.
3. He'll know you're helping him?

I have no experience with autism, so...

Anyway, it wasn't hard for me.
Skin pop in the back of his neck.
But it WAS a cat.

I had a friend who was diabetic and she gave herself the shot in yhe thigh.
This is probably NO help, but you are SKITTLES! and I know you can do it.

I'm feeling better about it!

grabbed taut anywhere, plunge, and you are done. It is much more complicated to figure out how much insulin you need to give.

the others said, easy enough, just have to figure out how much insulin based on readings, etc.

Mr Pipi has been doing it on himself for years. He also gave his mom her B12 shots, and we even self-vaccinated our old dogs.

Easiest insulin to use is the pen, where you can just dial the dosage. If we're in a restaurant or at someone's house for dinner he just jabs himself right through his shirt. I wouldn't recommend that, but he does it.

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... where they give me insulin shots -- the dosage is on a "sliding scale" according to
how high my blood sugar is when they give me a finger stick.
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The finger sticks are more uncomfortable than the actual shots (and the discomfort
is negligible from those sticks).
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The dosages seemed EASY enough to figure out -- nothing if the blood sugar is not
high... 1 "unit" if (arbitrarily -- they'll give you the REAL numbers to go by) it's 150-160...
2 "units if it's 160-172... etc.
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You give the shots in the outer upper arm or in the belly (when I first heard that, I
thought of rabies shots... which were given in the belly and EXCRUCIATINGLY
painful). Insulin needles are teeny-tiny and the vast majority of the time, I didn't
feel a thing (not because I'm a tough guy... but because they're seriously too tiny
to feel). You pinch the skin to raise it (I'm pretty sure) and further decrease the
already non-existent chance of hitting a vein with the small needle.
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The process is simple and the only thing to "dread" is that the fingerstick can feel
like a mosquito bite.
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(used to work at a Blood Bank and you guys were our heroes. - so few people take the time to donate a pint , much less the 90 minute apheresis procedure.) Sorry, know nothing about the shots.

I work nights and feel bad that I cannot "give back to the community" via normal volunteering - but laying there with a needle in my arm watching a DVD - that is entirely doable. I have TONS of platelets (have only ever ONCE had a hand stick) and do doubles although I have a hard time passing the iron test sometimes

Very, very commendable. One of society's quiet heroes!

You will do it because you have to. You'll be alright.

I've given myself B-12 shots for 10 years. Nothing to it. After the first shot you'll be a pro. Good lucK with it!

which included mixing regular and NPH insulin, I was given the okay to take my 6 year old daughter with diabetes home. You can do it.

you're the clincher!

You can do it. Insulin usually goes in at 45 degrees into the fat layer where as an I'M in straight in at 90 degrees into a muscle. I was so afraid of hurting people but it really is only the on the surface of the skin that feels it, for a quick stick and a sting and it is over.

The first shots I ever tried giving were combiotics for calves. I pinched and shot and cried out in the cow pen. Hated it. People are easier.

can't get it anymore, it's all other more advanced stuff now, although you can still get regular penicillin.

first "kid job" at branding time was vaccinating with the big glass and stainless syringe