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Parenting (Children)
The Choices of Diabetes: Reflections on a Twentieth Diaversary
Life – particularly with diabetes on board – is a series of choices. Looking back on the 20 years of my daughter Lauren’…
Insulin Kit for Children with Diabetes Wins Dyson Design Award
For Renata Souza Luque designing an award-winning method for children with diabetes to not only administer their insulin…
The Time the Police Stopped Me For Having Diabetes: A Halloween Story
Are people aware of the very moment they change your mindset forever? The moment that they confirm you aren’t alone with…
Prick-or-Treat: Halloween and Diabetes
Have you ever dressed up in a diabetes-themed Halloween costume? Dug through the trash to find a discarded candy wrapper…
Out of Sight Out of Mind? Sending Your Child With Diabetes to College
It was August of 2010 and I was days away from dropping my daughter with diabetes off at a college 500 miles away. I was…
Should You Share Your Child’s Diabetes Lows and Hardships on Social Media?
It was a video taken in the middle of the night: a child with diabetes half asleep in bed, fighting off the straw to a j…
Diabetes Is Not A Guessing Game
I grew up around needles, meters, insulin, test strips and blood. I grew up to know the moodiness, the fatigue, the weig…
Girl With Diabetes and Insulin Allergy to Receive Pancreas Transplant
A 12-year old South Carolina girl with Type 1 diabetes and what her parents describe as an intense allergy to insulin th…
Usher Takes Son to Diabetes Camp, Misses Manchester Benefit Concert
When superstar Usher explained to the world why he had to miss the Manchester Benefit Concert this week, the average par…