Vigilance is the watchword for caregivers of people with insulin-dependent diabetes. What do you need to know when illness strikes? Energy The body requires more energy when it is sick. That energy fuels the immune system’s fight against infection. People who are sick are often not interested in eating. With type 1 diabetes or insulin-dependent...
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Heroes are people who have the courage to turn challenges into advocacy. “Our life is made up of numbers.” Meri Schuhmacher is the mother of four sons: three of them have Type 1 diabetes. What is a typical day for Meri? “Our life is made up of numbers,” she says. She describes her day around blood glucose checks, “Nighttime blood...
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The time, energy and intellectual capacity of being a pancreas is daunting. “I am often the only person around who needs to do complicated mathematical equations before eating anything, before going anywhere, before mowing my lawn, shoveling snow, taking a walk, or before going to sleep at night. Diabetes is always on my mind, whether I like it or...
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