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How a School 504 Plan Helps a Child with Type 1
A mother of a child with Type 1 shares her experience.
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My Type 1 Outpatient Support Team
A young man with diabetes describes how outpatient care made all the difference after a Type 1 diagnosis.
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7 Tips for Supporting an Anxious Person with Type 1
A guide for how best to support those with both diabetes and mental health issues, by someone who deals with both.
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Adventures in Summertime Diabetes Management
A mother tries to trace why her daughter’s blood glucose levels fluctuate when school lets out.
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5 Lessons Learned from Year 1 with Type 1
A mother of a child with Type 1 shares what her family now knows about life with diabetes.
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How to Manage a Young Athlete’s Blood Sugars
A mother shares 7 tips she learned from trial and error with her daughter.
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5 Times I Felt Guilty Writing About Diabetes
An Insulin Nation reporter who does not have diabetes learns to appreciate his pancreas, and the everyday bravery of those with diabetes.
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A Students with Diabetes Conference Journal
Amy Ford describes her weekend at the National Students with Diabetes Conference in Tampa.
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What Diabetes Camp Means for Our Family
One mother of a child with Type 1 shares how the lessons her son learns at camp translate to better self-care all year.
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Pilots with Type 1 Restricted on Plane Choices
A pilot with Type 1 argues for a bill that would allow pilots with diabetes to fly more planes.
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Random Observations from the ADA Scientific Sessions
An incomplete and irreverent recap from a sleep-deprived editor.
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Coming Out of the Supply Closet as Type 1
A writer tries to embrace his diabetes status at a new job.
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How I Handled Pregnancy with Type 1
One woman shares how she enlisted a team and got organized to maintain good blood glucose levels and stay emotionally healthy.
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How to Practice Mindfulness with Type 1
A diabetes psychologist describes the benefits of mindfulness in diabetes management, and shares how to get started.
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What it’s Like to Date Someone Else with Type 1
Lana Triece weighs the pros and cons of having a partner who also lacks a working pancreas.
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Zen and the Art of Type 1
A woman who has had Type 1 for 40 years describes how mindfulness helps her stay healthy.
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An Ode to the D-Mom
Shane Slater remembers how his mother supported him in the beginning of his journey with Type 1.
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Watershed Moments of Fatherhood and Type 1
A dad of a child with Type 1 thinks back to important moments in time in a family affected by diabetes.
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A Cocktail of Cocaine and Insulin
One woman with Type 1 shares her struggles with addiction.
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Your Type 1 Diabetes Poetry
Read the poems of the five winners in our diabetes poetry contest.
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