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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Holly Howell of Lincolnton began her battle with insulin-dependent diabetes when she was just 6 years old. She was in kindergarten and this was years before insulin pumps and today's methods of dealing with diabetes were made available. She tells me that her parents would wake early each morning and boil syringes to give her the insulin shots that were a necessity.
Living in the South, healthy eating was not the norm in their household. Good old Southern fried cooking was a habit. She said her mother had to learn an entirely new way of cooking for Holly’s diabetic diet. As a young child, it also presented a problem if she was invited to a sleepover with friends because she always had to be prepared with her insulin shots and only certain food choices.
Wanting the best for their daughter, Holly says her parents prepared her well by making her aware of what her disease was, what was involved in dealing with it, and what it could mean to her in the future. When she was 9 and 11, her parents sent her to a diabetic camp. This gave her a better understanding of how diabetes was affecting her body and she saw others her age dealing with it. Going to this camp and being further educated about diabetes gave her more confidence, she said.
http://www.statesville.com/communit...cle_349806ac-abbc-11e4-8936-277e881913c9.html
Living in the South, healthy eating was not the norm in their household. Good old Southern fried cooking was a habit. She said her mother had to learn an entirely new way of cooking for Holly’s diabetic diet. As a young child, it also presented a problem if she was invited to a sleepover with friends because she always had to be prepared with her insulin shots and only certain food choices.
Wanting the best for their daughter, Holly says her parents prepared her well by making her aware of what her disease was, what was involved in dealing with it, and what it could mean to her in the future. When she was 9 and 11, her parents sent her to a diabetic camp. This gave her a better understanding of how diabetes was affecting her body and she saw others her age dealing with it. Going to this camp and being further educated about diabetes gave her more confidence, she said.
http://www.statesville.com/communit...cle_349806ac-abbc-11e4-8936-277e881913c9.html
