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Balancing sixth-grade, sports, and blood sugar. (includes related article on preparing for strenuous exercise)
As my eleven-year-old daughter lay in her hospital bed the first day she had been diagnosed as having Type I diabetes, specters of new limitations began to crowd in on her and all of us. One of those suddenly struck her, and she sat straight up in her bed and blurted out, "What will I do about trick-or-treating? If I can't eat the candy..." She froze there a moment and then relaxed back onto her pillow and exhaled, "Oh, well--I'll just sell it." With those words, I breathed a deep sigh of relief because she had demonstrated a resilience to the intruder called diabetes. I also realized that it was going to take this kind of resilience for my daughter to be able to continue the activities she most enjoyed--sports. Since the time of her diagnosis, we have discovered not only the importance of her own resilience, but also the importance of a supportive school staff in the diabetic…
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- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire September 16, 2003 700+ words
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- Clinical Reference Systems Cooper, Phyllis G. November 1, 2008 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Environmental Nutrition Webb, Densie December 1, 2006 700+ words
Controlling blood sugar used to be something only people with...the U.S. suggest that controlling blood sugar should be a concern for everyone...plate directly affects how high your blood sugar will go. Here's how to influence...
- Watching your blood sugar: self-monitoring can help you keep diabetes in check,...
- Magazine article from: Men's Health Advisor June 1, 2006 700+ words
...to build up in the blood. Unhealthy blood-sugar levels can lead to serious complications...greatly lower these risks. At-home blood-sugar testing, also called self-monitoring...one of the best ways to keep tabs on blood-sugar levels. Research has shown that when...
- How to check your blood sugar.
- CareNotes May 1, 2007 700+ words
...better and decrease the risk of health problems when your blood sugar is near normal. But you cannot always tell what your blood sugar level is by the way you feel. Testing your blood sugar is the only way to know how much sugar you have in your...
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- CareNotes August 1, 2006 700+ words
...better and decrease the risk of health problems when your blood sugar is near normal. But you cannot always tell what your blood sugar level is by the way you feel. Testing your blood sugar is the only way to know how much sugar you have in your...
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