Core Loop #1: The Finger Prick

The most-frequently played core loop in this game is literally painful. 

The Finger Prick

Prick your child's fingertip with a lancet and squeeze out enough blood to reveal your current “score” on the glucose monitor.

Your reward? Blood. Screaming. And your crappy score that shows you how bad you and an army of endocrinologists are at this horrible @#*$% game. 

Based on that score (and some other crap - we’ll get to that later) you calculate how much insulin to load into a syringe and inject into the softest part of her adorable little body you can find. 

You do this before every meal or snack. And then 3 hours later, because... why the hell not? And then multiple times overnight. 

What are the worst possible times you’d want to avoid waking up to poke your kid until they scream themselves awake to the point that they can’t fall back asleep? 

Let’s say 2am... and 5am. 

Yeah, let’s do it then.