Giving Shots to Diabetic Mother
Question
I live with my middle aged mother. She is mostly able to take care for herself. She has been diagnosed with diabetes and needs twice daily insulin shots. She doesn’t know how to do it herself, at least not yet, but I work in a profession where I know how to give shots. My mother wants me to prick her fingers and give her the insulin shots. I learned many years ago that it is forbidden to make one’s parent bleed, even for medical purposes. How should I deal with this?