Family Support for the Newly Diagnosed by Trained Volunteers
Edith Stater
Chairman
Finding out your child has type 1 diabetes can be overwhelming. Once the initial shock passes, the intense education process begins. It’s a new way of living, and there is so much to learn; nutrition, ketones, glucose levels, monitors, carbohydrate counting, highs, lows, insulin dosages… the list seems to go on forever.
The fears and questions may seem to also. You receive so much information from your doctors, diabetes educators and dieticians; but then the time comes when you and your child go home and “do it alone”. But you are not alone!
The Juvenile Diabetes Family Network was formed by families living with type 1 diabetes to help families with a newly diagnosed child or adolescent cope with this new way of living.
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