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was diagnosed type 1 at the same age (4). Today she is a freshman in college in a pharm D program. In all of it she has been able to do anything and everything she wants to do. She played in HS band, member of NHS, has a BB in TKD and so forth. Since age 7 she has been able to look at a plate of food and tell you how many grams of carbohydrates are sitting on it. The main thing for you is to stay informed, keep track of everything and not get overwhelmed about things. Stay on top of this.

You will be (if you haven't already) be assigned a pediatric endo. Over the years, we have been to several endo's and at one of the facilities they did (at the time) share the place with pediatric cancer (out) patients. This puts type 1 in its proper perspective. Type 1 sucks, no doubt about it but there are much worse things and kids today are wearing pumps at a very early age.

Down the road a bit for you but I highly recommend summer diabetes camp. Mine went first time at age 8, (this is a sleep-a-way camp) and returned year after year. Last summer she was a Jr. counselor, this year a Sr. counselor.