My wife, my two sons and I live in rural Wisconsin, about halfway between Milwaukee and Madison. My older son goes to college in CA.
My younger son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in the spring of 2016. His diagnosis has made a big change to all of our lives. We want to make sure that he can never see it as a limit.
We have found that the best information we have obtained on how to manage his condition is not from his endocrinologist or his CDE, but from other diabetics. What we have learned from them has radically altered the way we manage his BG - and our attitude to it as well.
Being the parent of a diabetic child is not always easy. You would like to take his sickness onto yourself, and the fact that you cannot – in reality, the need you have to see him in control of his own diabetes management – is difficult to accept. In a strange way, interacting daily with other diabetics is a humbling experience that makes us parents realize how trivial our burden really is.
We hope to learn plenty from everyone here. We also would like to contribute more to the fight against diabetes. We have tried many times to volunteer with ADA or JDRF but without much success - so we are also looking for other opportunities to fight back.