Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
In many ways, Nipomo High School student Philip Vaughan is just like any other teenager.
He rides the bus to and from school every day, enjoys listening to music fairly loud, loves action movies and is excited to turn 17 on Monday. Of course, he also likes pretty girls.
In so many other ways, though, Vaughan is nothing like the other 11th-grade students at his high school, where he?s enrolled in special education classes.
The Grover Beach teen has Down syndrome and was also diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2010, leaving his single-parent mother, Brenda, to assume a new role for her son ? nurse.
?I was scared, because I knew this was a lifelong thing,? Brenda said about learning her then 13-year-old mentally disabled son had a potentially life-threatening disease. ?I was responsible for his life now.?
http://www.timespressrecorder.com/articles/2013/10/24/news/featurednews/news50.txt
He rides the bus to and from school every day, enjoys listening to music fairly loud, loves action movies and is excited to turn 17 on Monday. Of course, he also likes pretty girls.
In so many other ways, though, Vaughan is nothing like the other 11th-grade students at his high school, where he?s enrolled in special education classes.
The Grover Beach teen has Down syndrome and was also diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2010, leaving his single-parent mother, Brenda, to assume a new role for her son ? nurse.
?I was scared, because I knew this was a lifelong thing,? Brenda said about learning her then 13-year-old mentally disabled son had a potentially life-threatening disease. ?I was responsible for his life now.?
http://www.timespressrecorder.com/articles/2013/10/24/news/featurednews/news50.txt