It was midway into a parents’ session on positive caregiving at the annual Children with Diabetes Friends for Life conference in Orlando, and a mother in the corner of the room was crying. Feeling alone and overwhelmed by the new task of raising a toddler with Type 1 Diabetes, her emotions overflowed.
Tag: Children with Diabetes
Jeff Hitchcock and his website, Children with Diabetes, have gone through some significant changes recently. These changes reflect how growth and success brings its own set of challenges, and also reflect some larger changes taking place in how diabetes functions as a business.
Looking back now with the eyes of someone who attended the Friends for Life conference I can say that I regret - to a certain degree - not attending camps when I was younger. Being around others with diabetes has given me greater awareness of what it means to live with diabetes.