by Pam Durant | May 16, 2024 | Diabetes and School, Diabetes and Young People, Diabetes Articles, Pam's Corner, Type 1 Diabetes
Imagine being a child, excited to join a school trip with your peers, only to be sidelined because of a medical condition you didn’t choose. For children with Type 1 Diabetes, this scenario is all too familiar. Whether it’s being left out of teams...
by Pam Durant | Aug 22, 2023 | Diabetes Articles, Pam's Corner
Fourteen years ago today, my son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at 18 months old. This picture was taken just two months after that, a few weeks after we got his insulin pump that you see pictured below. All this time, I had thought he was 20...
by Pam Durant | Mar 22, 2023 | Dia-Logue Podcast Episodes
Season 4, Episode 09: My Son’s Diabetes Wisdom – Reflections From a Teen Living With Type 1 Diabetes Pam’s son Erin was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes when he was 20 months old. He has been living with diabetes for pretty much his whole life. In this...
by Pam Durant | Jan 25, 2023 | Dia-Logue Podcast Episodes
Season 4, Episode 02: Motherhood, Caretaking and Diabetes – A Conversation With Zeina Hashem Beck As the mother of a child living with Type 1 Diabetes, Zeina shares her perspective on how the matriarchy helped her after her daughter’s diagnosis. She also...
by Pam Durant | Nov 16, 2022 | Pam's Corner, Type 1 Diabetes
There are some days when diabetes insists on being the center of attention. That’s almost every day. But sometimes diabetes insists you put everything on hold, and its obnoxiousness takes over. This was one of those days. And it’s never just one...
