My seven year old daughter had a seizure at home a few months back and I realized that is wasn't due to her diabetes. She continued to be completely blank at the hospital for awhile and later had a full seizure again. Then, we transported her to a better hospital. An MRI, EEG, CAT scan was performed which showed normal results except the EEG showing slowing on one side of the brain (normal, they say, after having a seizure). The past few weeks she has started talking about how she wished she didn't have to live anymore. She says she doesn't want to have to watch what she eats and not be able to have anything that she wants. I would just like to know how I should deal with this attitude? Also, has there ever been any connection between seizures that are not related to the diabetes with a type one diabetic or any history of something that might malfunction in the brain that would cause both? Just wishing I had some answers.

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.