Strong with Type One
Raising resilience — one story, one family, one day at a time.
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- Navigating Halloween with Type One Diabetes
- Supporting Your Child’s Mental Health After a Type One Diabetes Diagnosis
- When Siblings Step In: How Involving Our Older Son in His Brother’s Diabetes Care Changed Everything
- Choosing an Insulin Pump: The New Math, New Challenges, and the New Hope That Comes With It
- So Much to Share — And a New Post Every Week
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Halloween is one of those holidays that can feel a little complicated when you live with Type One Diabetes. On one hand, it’s filled with fun, excitement, and childhood magic — costumes, friends, pumpkins, and all the candy you can dream of. On the other, it’s sugar, unpredictability, and carb counting chaos. When my son…
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Type One Diabetes doesn’t just change your child’s body — it changes their heart and mind, too.The numbers, the alarms, the constant awareness — it can all become overwhelming.And while we learn to count carbs and dose insulin, we also have to learn something just as important: how to care for the emotional side of…
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When Siblings Step In: How Involving Our Older Son in His Brother’s Diabetes Care Changed Everything
When our younger son was diagnosed with Type One Diabetes, our entire world shifted — but so did his brother’s. In those early days, while we were juggling numbers, learning injections, and figuring out how to breathe again, our older son watched it all. He saw the finger pricks, the alarms, the sleepless nights, the…
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After months of shots, carb counting, and constant finger checks, the word “pump” starts getting tossed around. It’s a word that can sound both promising and terrifying all at once. You hear other parents say, “It changed everything,” while a small voice inside you wonders, What if it just makes everything harder? Choosing an insulin…
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When our family’s journey with Type One Diabetes began, I never imagined how much there would be to say — and how much I’d want to share. From the sleepless nights and hard lessons to the little victories and moments of hope, this road has been filled with stories that deserve to be told. Over…
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The first six months after a Type One Diabetes diagnosis are unlike anything you can prepare for. It’s a blur of numbers, alarms, sleepless nights, and constant learning. It feels like you’ve been dropped into a foreign country with no map, no guidebook, and no way to leave—only the demand to master the language of…
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We had no idea he was sick. There was no flu, no fever, no sign that anything serious was happening. He was going to school, playing sports, laughing with friends — just being a normal nine-year-old boy. Looking back now, the signs were there, but they were quiet — so easy to miss. The school…
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