Original Prompt: "Any (please no SPN), any character with a chronic illness or disability, 'Can I have a day off from *illness/disability* for my birthday?'"
What's a birthday without cake?
Though a rhetorical question, Stacey can't help but come up with a few answers.
A disappointment, a waste of time.
Maybe they aren't the sort of answers her care team would approve of, but just a day without pretzels and celery sticks is all she needs. A moment to enjoy what her friends have every afternoon.
She can all but taste the soft buttermilk icing on her tongue. Licking her lips, Stacey finds only air and flesh where, on another girl, chocolate crumbs might be.
If she could have just one little slice... It's her birthday, after all. Shouldn't it at least be noteworthy?
As reviewer CNJ pointed out, people with Type I Diabetes can now actually eat sugary stuff. In the eighties, that was not the case. Fast acting insulin wasn't a thing until the mid-nineties, and even when it was released, Martin still insisted in later books that Stacey would literally die if she ate a single jelly bean.