Last summer, when I picked my nine year old son up from diabetes camp, his eyes, like those of the counselors and other campers, were bloodshot…
Category: Parenting (Children)
Facebook’s On This Day feature certainly knows how to yank my chain. Up it pops to say, On this day nine years ago…and presents a child with impossibly…
It was the summer of 2010, and I was working through that terrifying time in the life of a diabetes parent: figuring out the whole “sending your kid…
We recently got a letter from our insurance company. It was addressed to my younger son. He is fourteen.
“Dear BRIGGS, We want to keep you informed…
It was “Parents Watch Day” at my daughter’s dance school, the week before the holiday break, and as a treat the teachers let the parents in to see just…
I’ll never forget the moments that occurred in the hospital’s parking garage after our daughter’s type 1 diagnosis and our World of Diabetes Care…
By the time diabetes upended our lives, our parental trio had been raising two daughters in two homes, for six years. We three are very different…
Looking for that special something for the little kids in your life who aren’t making their own insulin? Never fear! We’ve got you covered with these…
Life – particularly with diabetes on board – is a series of choices. Looking back on the 20 years of my daughter Lauren’s diabetes, I can see that how…
For Renata Souza Luque designing an award-winning method for children with diabetes to not only administer their insulin more easily, but in a…