Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Every school year begins the same way for Danny O?Shea ? with paperwork and endless trips to the school?s clinic.
As a Type I diabetic, the 13-year-old and his parents not only need to present a treatment plan to the school each year, but provide a kit to the clinic complete with insulin and his testing supplies.
At home, Danny treats and monitors the disease on his own. At school, he has to go to the clinic each time he needs to check his blood sugar or take insulin because of a state law that requires both his parents and his doctor to sign off on him carrying the equipment at school, said his father, Sean O?Shea.
?It?s a life-threatening disease and he?s allowed to go anywhere else on Earth with ? his kit,? Sean said. ?To not have that with you, I think it?s ridiculous.?
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/local/t...a-life-threatening-disease-documents-1.213431
As a Type I diabetic, the 13-year-old and his parents not only need to present a treatment plan to the school each year, but provide a kit to the clinic complete with insulin and his testing supplies.
At home, Danny treats and monitors the disease on his own. At school, he has to go to the clinic each time he needs to check his blood sugar or take insulin because of a state law that requires both his parents and his doctor to sign off on him carrying the equipment at school, said his father, Sean O?Shea.
?It?s a life-threatening disease and he?s allowed to go anywhere else on Earth with ? his kit,? Sean said. ?To not have that with you, I think it?s ridiculous.?
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/local/t...a-life-threatening-disease-documents-1.213431