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The activity was always welcomed in our family, more so since he was diagnosed with diabetes at age of 3. We soon noticed that the activity improves absorption and effectiveness of insulin.
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Mr T has always been a very agile, ever-so-on-the-move child: climbing under and on top of things, jungle gyms, trees. Anything. The activity was always welcomed in our family, more so since he was diagnosed with diabetes at age of 3. We soon noticed that the activity improves absorption and effectiveness of insulin. For the first 3 years after the diagnosis, Mr T was on multiple daily injections of insulin’s. We used pens. He therefore had nothing permanently attached to his body and was free to move, run and climb without a worry of damaging the pump or catching the line and pulling the infusion set off.
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We have been part of Diabetes community for nearly 6 years now, since Mr T's diagnosis in June 2006. I soon realized that the doctors are there to guide us and check on us from time to time, but the real understanding and knowledge to be learned about the daily management of diabetes was with people who live with it 24/7.
I reached out to the web, forums and blogs, I met other families, I chatted, I listened and, best of all, I stopped crying. I found "my other home", a place where people understood fully, place of knowledge and reassurance that my son can have a "normal" childhood and life, insulin and all. Today, I am starting this blog because I feel compelled to add our story to the mountain of others with a hope that one day while reading it, another mom, or a dad, or a person affected by diabetes would find something interesting and hopeful in it, that perhaps, just perhaps, might make them stop crying and start smiling, again. |
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