Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The Bergh household, with five children under age 11, is an unusually hectic place. Besides the usual schoolwork, baseball practice, gymnastics and piano lessons, there is an added complication: Two of the Bergh children have diabetes, and a third is likely to develop it in the next two years. Yet mom Tierra Bergh manages to maintain relative calm in her family's San Jose home.
"I want my children to know that this disease is not going to tear them down. They are leading normal, healthy lives," she said.
Both Maleki, 11, and Marae, 8, have type-1 diabetes. They each must inject themselves with insulin as many as eight times a day and prick their fingers up to 15 times a day to monitor their blood sugar levels. In an effort to better maintain their glucose levels, Tierra Bergh also tracks each gram of carbohydrate the two children eat. Every night, either she or her husband wakes at 3 a.m. to measure the kids' blood sugar. If necessary, they adjust the levels by getting them to drink some juice or by giving them a shot if their sugar levels are really high.
http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2014/february/diabetes-0224.html
"I want my children to know that this disease is not going to tear them down. They are leading normal, healthy lives," she said.
Both Maleki, 11, and Marae, 8, have type-1 diabetes. They each must inject themselves with insulin as many as eight times a day and prick their fingers up to 15 times a day to monitor their blood sugar levels. In an effort to better maintain their glucose levels, Tierra Bergh also tracks each gram of carbohydrate the two children eat. Every night, either she or her husband wakes at 3 a.m. to measure the kids' blood sugar. If necessary, they adjust the levels by getting them to drink some juice or by giving them a shot if their sugar levels are really high.
http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2014/february/diabetes-0224.html