Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
On the outside, brothers Andrew and Darren Barton are just like every other boy.
Andrew, 16, a sophomore at Junipero Serra High School, takes honors classes, runs cross country and track, and plays basketball. Darren, 11, a sixth grader in middle school at Highlands Christian School, loves playing video games on his Xbox, plays football and, like his brother, plays basketball. Just like most boys, they eat a lot. They both have braces.
On the inside, however, they?re both fighting a daily battle that most don?t see or understand: They both have Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease in which a person's pancreas stops producing insulin. It affects both children and adults and, in some cases, can be fatal.
?This thing is not something where you just take a pill or take insulin,? said Mike Barton, the boys? father. ?It?s a big deal.?
http://southsanfrancisco.patch.com/...pread-the-word-about-type-1-diabetes-adbb1cd3
Andrew, 16, a sophomore at Junipero Serra High School, takes honors classes, runs cross country and track, and plays basketball. Darren, 11, a sixth grader in middle school at Highlands Christian School, loves playing video games on his Xbox, plays football and, like his brother, plays basketball. Just like most boys, they eat a lot. They both have braces.
On the inside, however, they?re both fighting a daily battle that most don?t see or understand: They both have Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease in which a person's pancreas stops producing insulin. It affects both children and adults and, in some cases, can be fatal.
?This thing is not something where you just take a pill or take insulin,? said Mike Barton, the boys? father. ?It?s a big deal.?
http://southsanfrancisco.patch.com/...pread-the-word-about-type-1-diabetes-adbb1cd3