If you have a child with diabetes I’m sure you’ve dreamed of a day when a cure would be available. Like those nights when you couldn’t sleep because your child’s glucose level dropped to 40 and scared you to death. Or the time he called from school to say it was 300 and you dropped what you were doing to race there and help. It seems like you might place your future hope for a cure in Stem Cell therapy as it is apparently already being used successfully in curing Type 2 diabetes.

Children with Juvenile type 1 diabetes have... more

1. You can request a 504 plan at school to allow your child to meet his/her needs. You can ask that your child be allowed to leave class to use a bathroom at any time and may even be given access to staff only areas. You can ask for my child to have extra time before lunch to administer insulin. You can ask teachers and office to keep emergency snack foods available at all times for your child and that your child can eat during class. You can ask for a retake on test if your child’s sugar was too high. You can request that... more

Last week I was speaking to one of my friends, who is also the mother of my son’s best friend, about his diabetes management. She was so excited and hopeful for the future as she and her son have been attending classes to learn how to use the insulin pump. Since her son is really into sports she’s hoping the pump will help manage his sugar. Her technique for the past year has been to keep his levels high right before he engages in a lot physical activity so he doesn’t drop way low during exercise. The problem is that keeping the sugar... more

He was always thirsty. It just seemed like he couldn’t get enough to drink; he’d no more than finish a bottle of water or soda and want another one. His parents couldn’t seem to keep enough bottled water on hand for him. Was he just looking for some extra attention?

He constantly had to go to the bathroom. His teachers weren’t going to let him out of class two or three times during the hour to use the bathroom. Nobody really has to pee that often, so I guess you can’t blame them. A couple of times he actually wet his pants on the hour-long bus ride home from... more