Another good book to the series, I doubt I’m going to hate reading any of the series in all honesty. But anyhow, I really love Stacey she always used to be my favourite BSC member. In this book Stacey gets hospitalised after her diabetes had been getting worse, she’s been tired, thirsty and hungry more than usual and her diet hadn’t been working. While in the hospital her favourite client Charlotte started acting up which was so sad to read, Charlotte thinking she was so ill was so sad to read.

Ahh, yes, the book that convinced thousands of children everywhere that they had diabetes, just like Stacey. Hypochondriacs, just like Charlotte, sprung up by the hundreds as they suddenly become thirsty after playing football in summer.I can't help but feel reading this years and years after it was first published that diabetes is a euphemism for AIDS. This would make sense, given the era, and everyone treats her diabetes as though it's some awful secret. Sure, she has brittle diabetes (which i...

Stacey's diabetes takes a nosedive in this book, leaving her vulnerable and frightened in a hospital in NYC. The rest of the baby sitters (and Charlotte) are left vulnerable and frightened back in Stoneybrook. I was the only person I knew who didn't like this book when I first read it. For most of my friends, this was their favorite BSC book. (I was also one of the few people I knew who disliked Stacey, although as an adult I don't think she's as annoying and vapid as I remember her being.) My m...

Finally the big build up to Stacey is over! She's sick. We get it.

I read this (for the first time in 25 years or so) in March 2016.I became diabetic in June or July of 2016.I was diagnosed with diabetes in September 2016.Despite two years of medical school, I did not recognise my symptoms of being those of diabetes.Conclusion: Stacey’s better at the diabetes thing than 32-year-old ex-medical student me. Only by a bit - she’s stealing fudge and Maltesers (in the UK version), but still, better.While this lacks the humour of a lot of the BSC novels, Stace is pret...

I initially mistook Martin's declarative prose as bad writing, but soon realized it is, in fact, her genius: she perfectly mimics the breathless, everyday hysteria of the tweenage girl. (Whether anyone but an 11-year-old would want to spend time with these characters is another matter.) She also pens the occasional poignant passage about diabetes, divorced parents and the impersonality of a hospital stay.

Despite having a serious form of diabetes, Stacey can't handle the stress and must turn to emotional eating to fill the void in her life.

I was feeling nostalgic so I downloaded a bunch of BSC books from the library. This was the first one I saw that I remember vividly. Whenever I felt like I had excessive thirst growing up, my first thought was always “WHAT IF I AM HAVING A DIABETIC EMERGENCY LIKE STACEY” (even though I don’t even have diabetes). It still held up when being read as an adult, even if I find it a little ridiculous that Stacey would get so many gifts while in the hospital. (Also how much of the treasury money is the...

I'm fairly certain I read this as a kid but all I remember is Stacey eating lots of sweets and then getting ill, which I thought was linked. Thus I was surprised when having lunch with a diabetic friend, she simply checked her insulin then ate a slice of banoffee pie and a bit of chocolate cake. Then another friend informed me that if Jo was ever low on insulin and looked ill we were to feed her lots of sugary foods. Thanks AMM for forevering confusing children about diabetes!Anyway, I did reall...

3.5 Stars

One of the more realistic BSC books that reminded me all too vividly of my own time in the hospital.

this is my first time reading this book!there have been allusions to stacey not being well for a LONG time (at least since Kristy and the Secret of Susan). in this book, her blood glucose level is so out of whack that she gets insatiably hungry and thirsty. she starts eating chocolate and other sweets, and on a visit to new york to stay with her dad, she goes to the hospital because she feels so crappy. what ensues is a book about what it's like to be in the hospital while they try to figure out...

Stacey's EmergencyPLOT Stacey's diabetes starts to act up which winds her up in the hospital. This causes her to worry when the doctors can't figure out what's wrong with her and keep dosing her up with more insulin. Meanwhile, Charlotte is trying to get sick so she'll wind in the hospital with Stacey in some kind of weird boding experiment that will assure her she's not alone and be fine enough to come back home to her. MY THOUGHTS:*Hmm so Stacey's always so quick to point out how glamorous the...

it was a relief to finally get to this book because they have been foreshadowing it for at least twnty books--seriously. it's not unusual in the babysitters club series to shadow maybe four or five books in advance, but stacey has been looking thin, pale, & sickly pretty much since her parents got divorced back in book #24 or whenever it was, & it all finally comes to a head here.basically, this book is all about stacey feeling like crap physically, sneaking one of claudia's ho hos, guzzling a p...

We finally, finally get the one where Stacey gets sick from her diabetes and it is so anti-climactic it's not even funny. And pretty boring actually. I was expecting a fainting incident or at least a peeing-the-bed accident lol. Stacey is obviously still feeling crappy at the beginning of this one, but she hasn't told her mom or dad, even though her schoolwork is starting to suffer. Duh, doesn't she know that if you have an actual excuse for bad grades, you use it as long as possible?? So, she's...

I definitely remember this one and it gave me flashbacks to seeing what happened to my diabetic friend if she didn't get enough sugar or got too much. What stuck with me was how Stacey got dehydrated all the time when she was having issues with her diabetes. What really annoyed me was how she kept eating candy even though she had to know it was hurting her. My diabetic childhood friend was never allowed to eat candy unless it was sugar-free. Once when her sugar was too low she got sugar on her s...

Stacey goes to the hospital.Stacey’s been feeling tired and under stress with her schoolwork and her parents quizzing her about each other, and she starts sneaking candy. On a trip to see her dad, she’s so tired and sick that her father takes her to the hospital. She ends up staying in a New York City hospital for two weeks, alternately feeling better and worse as the doctors try different mixes of insulin. The slow build-up of Stacey’s illness, details about hospital life from a seasoned hospit...

I usually didn't like the Stacey books as much, but this one was quite interesting. I suppose because it was a more serious one than her just being in L-U-V yet again with some guy. I think these books also taught me more about diabetes than anything else at that age.

I really actually liked this book as a kid, and I still find it pretty decent as an adult. Perhaps because most books that deal with any sort of illness or disease really never touch on diabetes. It's a rough condition for adults, and pretty nasty for children. I know a couple of people who had it super young, and yeah. Not easy. So I can at least appreciate that.This book is pretty par for the course though when it comes to a book about a kid with a medical condition. Stacey isn't feeling well,...

When I first started reading these books I was like eight or nine years old. I was introduced to diabetes, and for years, thought that this was what diabetes was like. I had thought that diabetics couldn't eat candy, and while it is true that twenty years ago, diabetes treatment wasn't as advanced as it is now, this didn't mean that diabetics couldn't eat sugar! Sugar is a vital component in nutrition and diabetics need to eat fruit which has natural sugar, and it is okay for them to have refine...