Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
NEW BEDFORD ? Six-year-old Hannah Walsh was excited to enter first grade this year and finally sit at her own desk, but two days after classes started she has yet to finish a school day due to budget cuts that axed the Winslow School's full-time nurse.
Walsh, who was diagnosed with the rare Type 1 diabetes at 11 months and uses an insulin pump to control her sugar levels, receives access to a nurse through her plan for students with disabilities.
Because of the condition, which means her body does not produce the insulin needed to convert sugar and other types of food into energy, Hannah must have her sugar levels checked at regular intervals and she receives other accommodations: drinks in class, multiple trips to the bathroom. In kindergarten she visited ?Nurse Jerome? sometimes seven times a day.
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130904/NEWS/130909965
Walsh, who was diagnosed with the rare Type 1 diabetes at 11 months and uses an insulin pump to control her sugar levels, receives access to a nurse through her plan for students with disabilities.
Because of the condition, which means her body does not produce the insulin needed to convert sugar and other types of food into energy, Hannah must have her sugar levels checked at regular intervals and she receives other accommodations: drinks in class, multiple trips to the bathroom. In kindergarten she visited ?Nurse Jerome? sometimes seven times a day.
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130904/NEWS/130909965