By
MikeH on
April 24, 2013
In West Virginia, a 16-year-old with type 1 recruited hundreds of walkers and raised a record amount of money for his local JDRF chapter because he wanted to give back to a worthy cause.
In New York, another teenager helped raise a record amount of money for his local JDRF walk.
We tend to think of teens as “hanging out” and wasting a lot of time, but these two kids exemplify how younger generations of…
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By
AmyT on
December 7, 2012
Happy Friday! Once again, it’s time for a “life with diabetes” video short from filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie, who created the documentary film Sugar Babies. In this week’s clip, we get a peek inside a family’s experience of taking their adorable little girl with type 1 to preschool for the first time!
But this mom and dad face having to give up the constant supervision of her diabetes, and help the new teacher learn how to…
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Funny what you find when you clean out your closets. As I was sorting through some of the piles of diabetes-related materials in my office last week, I uncovered this cheery-looking little book called “My Life as a Pancreas” by Priscilla Call Essert:
Someone had sent it to me for review a while back, and I guess I set it aside thinking it was a kids’ book. Luckily, this time I grabbed it for some…
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