Balancing act

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Northerner

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Willow Shawl doesn't like to draw attention to her Type 1 diabetes. If a stranger asks about the insulin pump clipped to her jeans, the 10-year-old will say it's an iPod. She will sometimes forgo checking her blood sugar levels to avoid the stares of her classmates as she pricks her finger.

So for a time in third grade ? when she started coming home from school with unusually high blood sugar levels ? her parents suspected she was slacking in her daily routine. Willow insisted otherwise.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/sc-health-1109-diabetes-kid-care-20111109,0,6067166.story
 
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