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Photo courtesy of compassioncantwait.org Director Jon Macht, Director of Photography David E. West c 2018 There is nothing worse in life than when your child is having a health crisis, and you are a single working parent torn between making a living to maintain health insurance and caring for your sick child. I have been in this position, feeling tormented concerned with the unbearable pain
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Dear Nadia, Help!! My 10yr old daughter is a type 1 diabetic who was diagnosed at 2. This year she has suffered from severe hypoglycemic episodes to the point where I have stopped giving her insulin. The first time this happened in April, I begged the doctors to check everything…to see if there was some kind of hormonal imbalance that could be causing this. They
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Tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of one of the most tragic days in our history. I was there. I was there for 36 straight hours and saw things that were beyond frightening. Many know my story and I’m not going to re-tell it today but I want to share an observation. When people ask me what is the most memorable aspect of ‘that day’, my
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Years ago there was a fabulous television commercial for Staples. The Christmas song is playing (sing along with me), It’s the most wonnnnn-derrrrr-fullll tome of year…..” and of course the camera pulls back to revel parents gleefully shopping for back to school supplies while showing the kids’ dour faces. Click here for the commercial. That time of year…….School’s open…..kids go back…..great, right? Well not really
Read more“Having Purr-fect Pals when my son was young would have been wonderful and helpful,” said Ellen Day after reading the book for the first time. The book she refers to is Purr-fect Pals: A Kid, A Cat & Diabetes. It’s a unique picture and activity book designed and written to offer comfort, education, and encouragement to children who are either newly diagnosed or have been
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https://media.blubrry.com/diabeteshealthpodcast/p/www.diabeteshealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Sep-2_-2015_-3_03_37-PM.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadClick here to listen to the audio recording of Diabetes Health in The News. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the Dexcom G5, a Mobile Continuous Glucose Monitoring System, a first of its kind. What makes this medical device unique? users will now have their glucose data sent directly to their smartphone or iOS-enabled device, eliminating the
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By Diabetes Dad As a follow-up to the survey I took in the diabetes community, I promised a state-by-state breakdown of some of the results. If it helps when/if you meet with your state representative, feel free to use it, just be clear on how the data was acquired (that it is not completely scientific etc. etc.). Again as a reminder: LET’S BE VERY CLEAR FROM
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By Diabetes Dad RESULTS OF SURVEY TAKEN A FEW WEEKS AGO A few weeks ago I started a survey. The survey began as a project to obtain statistics regarding missed diagnosis of DKA while being diagnosed with diabetes. What I found out was both educational and alarming. Today I will share with you what I found out. LET’S BE VERY CLEAR FROM THE BEGINNING. This was an
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The diabetes community is coming together again this year to raise funds to provide diabetes supplies for children in developing countries The Spare a Rose, Save a Child campaign – centered around Valentine’s Day – supports the International Diabetes Federation’s Life for a Child program, which helps save the lives of children with type 1 diabetes for whom life-saving insulin is out of reach. “It
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For children newly diagnosed with diabetes, the world can suddenly seem a rather solitary place. Kids now have to know the amount of carbohydrates in everything they eat and how much insulin they have to take based on those carbohydrates. Blood glucose monitoring is standard operating procedure, and however foreign, insulin has become a constant companion. To make the transition easier, many kids learn to
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