Diabetes and starting school: difficult choices?

I think you also have to feel out the school staff and how they will handle this. Our school district is Amazing, the school nurse reached out to me the minute she heard we had been diagnosed and assured us that we could decide the care plan within their schedule limitations, and pushed hard for the minute Cody was independent with his treatment, that he take over with the nurse on speed dial if my wife and I weren’t available.

The meetings aren’t bad, yes he has a 504 which protects him, but that only results in one meeting a year to make sure there are no changes needed. Other than that he is a normal kid.

We have talked to other parents in other school districts where the support hasn’t been there, and they have had to fight for everything. So I would go talk early to the school to understand how they would handle the situation.

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