I wrote earlier today about having a good lead to help educate Family Physicians on looking more closely for diagnosis of diabetes before allowing misdiagnosis. Someone stated that I should not just include Diagnosis at Death….and I fully agree. If your doctor (no names please) missed the diagnosis of your child’s T1 diabetes when they showed symptoms of […]
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I need your help. I am in discussions with someone who might help educate Family Physicians (Pediatricians would be next) on a fairly large-scale to administer a protocol for (at least) a urine sample when symptoms in any shape or form resemble a possible T1 diabetes diagnosis (whether it be flu, sever back aches etc etc). At the […]
There are moments. Moments that will leave a mark on your brain, your heart, and your soul. Usually it is a major occurrence but I have also always been a master at remembering the little things that have happened in my life, but little compared to the world’s standards, not mine; but they hugely impacted my […]
In the majority of this country kids have started school. Hundreds of times I have seen the photo dreaded by every kid holding a sign with the year they are in and the grade they are in…….they’ll survive; and their future spouse will thank us all 20 years or so from now. The pictures are fabulous. Today […]
Last Thursday, a couple was arrested in Oregon and charged with first and second degree manslaughter in the death of their daughter who died in February. It appears to be that their daughter died from untreated T1 diabetes. This has happened before and I am sure it will happen again. In as much as we […]
I have never looked at Labor Day as the end of something. I have always looked at it as the beginning. perhaps when I was a younger grammar-school child, I was not such a big fan but I really loved my high school and college years and Labor Day always meant those exciting days were around the […]