A 17 year old female friend has type 1 diabetes. Her sister, who was also a type 1 diabetic, died not too long ago. Both girls were being taken care of by an older sister. Now, this sister is trying to do what would be best for this sister who is having some very high sugar levels. We live in Liberia and, as you may know, we have just had 14 years of civil war in our country which has deprived us of modern technology, absence of the insulin injections, as well as shortage of food which usually is hard to find for diabetics. In our country, we do have rice, beans, potatoes, plantain, eddoes, cassava, chicken, cow meat, a lot of fish, greens, eggplant, bitter balls, okra, pepper etc. Can you provide us with information on the diet, as well as proportions, which could help us to follow up our patient in a better way? What are nutritious foods which could be eaten by a diabetic and their proportions?

Justin Delgado is husband to Kacie Doyle-Delgado, diagnosed at age 11. After more than a decade together, he considers himself to be an expert carb counter and Dexcom inserter. He graduated with his Master of Science in Finance from the University of Utah in 2013 and has been working in commercial banking since then. He attended his first Friends for Life conference in 2015 and is looking forward to volunteering with the teens.

Kacie Doyle-Delgado, MSN, APRN, NP-C, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 11 and attended her first Friends for Life conference in 2002. Since then, she has attended several FFL and regional conferences. She earned her BSN and her MSN as a Family Nurse Practitioner at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT and she is currently enrolled in a DNP program. She works for Utah Physicians Care Center in a diabetes specialty clinic. Kacie lives in Salt Lake with her husband, Justin Delgado, and their dogs. She is looking forward to volunteering with the teens again.

Marissa Town, BSN, RN, CDE, graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and later earned her Certified Diabetes Educator credential. She has had type 1 diabetes since the age of two and has grown up with a passion for helping families living with diabetes. Marissa is currently working as a research nurse at Stanford University. She has always enjoyed working with families with diabetes at Children with Diabetes conferences, camps, and support groups. She and her husband Adam have two young children, Connor and Everly.