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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
It is a difficult diagnosis for anyone to hear, but when a child is diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, it is truly life-altering for the whole family.
CBS 2′s Kate Sullivan shares some advice on how to cope from two kids who diagnosed themselves.
They may have the best advice of all.
Nine-year-old Ellie Grimm and 12-year-old Sam Parsons are two different kids, with two remarkable stories.
Both diagnosed themselves with diabetes.
For Ellie, it was her love of American Girl dolls that might have saved her life. She read an article in American Girl Magazine about a girl with diabetes.
?She came to me and said, ?Mom, maybe I have diabetes too,?? said her mother, Jessie Grimm.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/05...is-for-children-but-2-kids-did-it-themselves/
CBS 2′s Kate Sullivan shares some advice on how to cope from two kids who diagnosed themselves.
They may have the best advice of all.
Nine-year-old Ellie Grimm and 12-year-old Sam Parsons are two different kids, with two remarkable stories.
Both diagnosed themselves with diabetes.
For Ellie, it was her love of American Girl dolls that might have saved her life. She read an article in American Girl Magazine about a girl with diabetes.
?She came to me and said, ?Mom, maybe I have diabetes too,?? said her mother, Jessie Grimm.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/05...is-for-children-but-2-kids-did-it-themselves/