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Friends for Life is an experience that can be difficult to describe; the closest that I can come up with is “diabetes camp on steroids,” but it doesn’t truly capture all the magic that happens every summer during Friends for Life Orlando. When Friends for Life started, the idea was for families to come together who really understand what life with diabetes is like. What it has become is something uniquely tailored for people with diabetes and their loved ones. Making Connections One of the main goals of CWD (Children with Diabetes) is to help people feel supported in their […]

Diabetes moms—we are like regular moms, but we are different.  Watching your child receive a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes elevates you to a whole new level of motherhood and I’m almost certain that this chapter…the one about diabetes…was left out of all of the manuals that I read when I was preparing to become a mother for the first time. Many of you may know that the day that my three-year-old daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, I discovered Children with Diabetes while browsing the internet looking for answers to help me sort out the grief, frustration, worry, […]

Now that we have all emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are rebuilding our immune system.  This means we are catching all the germs our kids are bringing home from school, our coworkers are bringing into work, and whatever else our body catches. Since we were all isolated for so long, a lot of our body’s antibodies aren’t as effective as they once were. Here are the latest guidelines for sick-day management for people with diabetes. *Note – if you are a caregiver/parent, replace “you” with “your child.” Monitoring Glucose and Ketones For sick days, monitoring blood glucose […]

Guten Tag from the Children with Diabetes team! Last week, a small, but mighty group of CWD staff members grabbed our passports, packed our bags, and headed off to Berlin, Germany for the 16th International Conference on Advanced Technologies and Treatments for Diabetes (ATTD). As your personal tour guide to this event, I’m here to share with you all of the highlights of last week’s amazing activities… from the remarkable exhibit hall to fun flavors of glucose tablets in the local grocery stores to lots of currywurst and wiener schnitzel and everything in between. We’ve been cleared for our take-off, […]

Although there has been an uptick in reporting about racial and ethnic health disparities, the phenomenon is not new. As author Arleen Tuchman describes in her book, Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease, there is a long history of the medical field believing that there are biological differences between different races. This belief that race is a biological aspect of people has been disproven through the human genome project, but racial health disparities remain a significant challenge in the U.S. and throughout other parts of the world.1 Tuchman talks about how underdiagnosed type 1 diabetes has been throughout history […]

I have a confession to make. I’m a diabetes supply hoarder…a diabetes supply “prepper”…a person who worries about the “diabetes apocalypse.” I know I’m not the only one, and in fact, we recently received a question to our CWD Answers section asking about what someone with diabetes could do if there were a zombie apocalypse. I’ve been this way for the last 10 years since my daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of three. I think that it started during our diagnosis experience when we were still in the hospital learning about our new lives with […]