Get your "newly diagnosed" kit with Rufus the Bear, find local chapters for support, how to help with fundraising, getting involved in clinical trials, up-to-date news on research toward finding a cure.
Diabetes Stinks: Tips and thoughts on living with diabetes at home and at school from 8 year old Bailey who was diagnosed at age 6.
Nick's Simple Wins - Nick Jonas of "The Jonas Brothers" teams up with Bayer Diabetes Care to fight diabetes. Read Nick's blog, enter contests, find product information.
Medical Identification Tags
- Low cost metal bracelets, necklaces, shoe tags that can be engraved
- Low cost zipper pull or keychain
- Super inexpensive tags for shoes, bracelets, zipper pulls, etc. and can be engraved. Cheap enough to stock up and put on everything and have spares for when others get lost!
- Low cost jelly wrist bands that come in lots of colors
- Low cost kids neoprene wrist bands in lots of different themes and colors suited for kids and teens
Low cost waterproof discrete band with secure hook and loop closure and with the identification information tucked inside the band- Low cost beaded bracelets in different colors or more creative and expensive ones here
- Make your own bracelets with these medical tags and your favorite beads and baubles.
- See more options at http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/
Personalizing your devices with changeable covers (skins) and other features
- Skins for Medtronic insulin pumps in a variety of colors and designs
- Skins for Accu Chek Aviva glucose monitors
- Bayer announces the Didget meter designed for kids. The new Didget connects with Nintendo DS to personalize and reinforce good testing habits. Thus far, only available in the U.K. but you can sign up to be notified when it can be shipped to U.S. addresses.
1 comments:
Sending thoughts and prayers to your nephew and his family. My nephew was also diagnosed at age 6, so I know how it shakes up the family to have so young a child get a diagnosis like that. The family adjustment takes time, but my nephew is now about to turn 13. He's a happy, healthy kid with an insulin pump that lets him lead a pretty normal life. I think he got the pump when he was about 9. He was a spokes-kid (formerly known as "poster child") for JDRF for a while, which was not a bad gig -- he got to go to things like sports events and get backstage passes and stuff. Fun!
That said, in another sense my nephew is heading into the "danger zone" -- the age where he is needing to become more and more responsible for his own diabetes management, combined with the teenager's sense of invincibility. It's a little scary, but so far, so good.
Wishing peace and strength to your brother and SIL as they make the adjustment and to your nephew as he deals with all the new routines and pokes. :o(
Stephanie Charlot
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