Type 1 Diabetes

  • Diabetes,  Type 1 Diabetes

    Your Daughter has Type 1 Diabetes

    Your daughter has Type 1 diabetes is not what any parent wants to hear.  Why do you ask?  Type 1 Diabetes is a chronic condition where the pancreas no longer produces insulin.  A type 1 diabetic must give insulin a minimum of four times a day and must calculate every carb that he/she eats. Type 1 diabetes is not curable. T1D was foreign to us a year ago.  It all started with extreme thirst.  I don’t recall how long Amelia had extreme thirst and tiredness but we think it was maybe a month or two.  I remember shrugging it off thinking her thirst and tiredness were related to our busy…