Sure, you can recycle the cardboard that your child’s diabetes supplies come in. Or you can let her transform that box full of needles and lancets and sharp, pointy things into something magical.
Site changes don’t have to be so bad — not when you’re working from this glitzy, glam diabetes supply organizer. Find out how to make it here.
Here’s one festive activity that requires no diabetes math or extra insulin. Gather up your child’s type 1 diabetes trash and make it into one of these cute ornaments together!
For a great rainy-day activity, help your child make his or her own personalized type 1 diabetes ID bracelet with step-by-step instructions and one of 15 free printable designs.
Expecting guests with diabetes at your next soiree? Let them enjoy a little more socializing and a little less guestimating by posting carb counts for the dishes you serve. (Wish the treats were labeled at every party your child attends? Share these labels with your friends!)
Type 1 diabetes management seems to create quite a bit of garbage. Why let it all go to waste? Use discarded insulin pump supplies to create adorable bats, ghosts, and Frankensteins to decorate the house in October.
Coco is a young monkey who has type 1 diabetes. Print out a picture of Coco and let your child color her in!
Got a lot of type 1 diabetes waste building up? Not all of it has to go in the trash—here are a handful of clever ways D-parents and people with diabetes have found to reuse and repurpose test strip containers after the goods are gone.
by Camille Boivin, guest blogger, Diabetetype1.blogspot.com
Looking at all the plastic waste that’s left after each of my son’s insulin pump site changes got me thinking… I began keeping all the empty insulin vials, infusion set caps, reservoirs, and tubing, hoping to find something to do with them. And here it is!
I decided to play this game with Kaitlyn, and I was a little surprised at a lot of her answers!
