{"id":29836,"date":"2012-07-05T23:02:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T03:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=28384"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:42:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:42:48","slug":"trialnet-should-we-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=29836","title":{"rendered":"TrialNet: Should we do it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bedtime thoughts from Orlando:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mike and I are here at the CWD FFL conference with our sons, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diabetestrialnet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">TrialNet<\/a>\u00a0is here, too.. \u00a0TrialNet screens relatives of people with type 1 diabetes for their risk of developing type 1. \u00a0As you&#8217;d probably expect, Mike and I worry about our sons&#8217; risk for type 1 and getting them \u00a0screened is something we&#8217;ve discussed, <a href=\"http:\/\/parenting.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/24\/children-and-genetic-tests\/\" target=\"_blank\">and that I&#8217;ve written about<\/a>, in the past. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My general feeling has been that I don&#8217;t want to know. \u00a0I want to live as if diabetes is not going to happen, and if it does then I&#8217;ll deal with it. \u00a0Mike, until now, seemed to feel the same way. \u00a0But today, with TrialNet right there in the next room, Mike felt differently. \u00a0&#8220;We should test them,&#8221; he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I gave him a WTF look.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For science,&#8221; he said. \u00a0&#8220;We should do it for science.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we should. \u00a0But I&#8217;m not ready to go there. \u00a0My sons, thankfully, are having a great time. \u00a0I don&#8217;t want them to think that we brought them here to find out if they&#8217;re going to get diabetes. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, CWD FFL is probably the only place in the world where having diabetes doesn&#8217;t seem like a bad thing. \u00a0So maybe after being here diabetes will seem less scary to my sons. \u00a0I love seeing how happy the kids are here, but it doesn&#8217;t make diabetes, or the risk of it, any less scary to me. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TrialNet: Should we do it?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"TrialNet screens relatives of people with type 1 diabetes for their risk of developing type 1.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=29836\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jessica Apple\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=29836\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=29836\",\"name\":\"TrialNet: Should we do it?\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=29836#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=29836#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ASL-Social-Big-Square-3.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-07-06T03:02:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-12-27T20:42:48+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#\/schema\/person\/1f33fe649de04a31a493d746b6e72607\"},\"description\":\"TrialNet screens relatives of people with type 1 diabetes for their risk of developing type 1.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=29836#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=29836\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=29836#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ASL-Social-Big-Square-3.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ASL-Social-Big-Square-3.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":1280},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=29836#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"TrialNet: Should we do it?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/\",\"name\":\"ASweetLife\",\"description\":\"The Diabetes Magazine\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#\/schema\/person\/1f33fe649de04a31a493d746b6e72607\",\"name\":\"Jessica Apple\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c10409e04c60ee9e1a01fbe9c4a704b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c10409e04c60ee9e1a01fbe9c4a704b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jessica Apple\"},\"description\":\"Jessica Apple grew up in Houston. 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