My name is Jennifer, and I live in Southern California with my husband, Craig, and our two boys. Our oldest son James has been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I’m thankful for this opportunity — along with my sister-in-law Kim and her daughter Kaitlyn, who also has type 1 diabetes — to share our struggles and triumphs with our friends in the diabetes community.
Jen M., Real Moms Talk Type 1
My son sees type 1 differently than I do, and it reminds me how important it is to keep talking with him about it, rather than relying on my own feelings.
by Jen M., Real Moms Talk Type 1
An integrated pump/CGM hasn’t made life with diabetes perfect. But it has made some of the scariest aspects of diabetes significantly less so.
A T1D diagnosis is enough to make Halloween pretty scary for parents. But it doesn’t have to be.
Even when I think I have a pretty good idea of how my kids feel about a certain topic, asking the questions almost always yields surprises.
James has shown not only tremendous interest in learning to work his new insulin pump, but a competency as a digital native that his parents aren’t able to match. And that has some unexpected benefits.
That such huge advances could be made in the seemingly short lifetime of my little son is mind-boggling to me.
The right decision is rarely black and white when it comes to parenting. But that’s one thing that type 1 diabetes has taught me pretty well.
In the very early days of diagnosis, when James was still so little, I worried every second about his blood sugar. If that’s where you are now, please know: It really does get better.
It’s not easy, but it’s worth it to make the long drive to visit a diabetes doctor who fills us with positivity and confidence.
It might look unremarkable at first glance, but the “diabetes cart” is a perfect representation of the amount of work we still have to do in educating schools about type 1 diabetes.
