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Quote From: jennybae

My daughter also has type 1 diabetes. She was diagnosed 7 days after her 8th birthday, June 2006. She has spells where she is very angry. I have her in therapy it helps a lot. Also I looked into diabetes camp. She is there now. It is one week every summer. There are kids from all over. They all get together and have fun. It has given her a reason to be positive. I saw her smile for the first time in a long time. I cried. We have went through this change together it has helped her. I told her that God gave it to her for a reason and to think of it as a gift. She is special. Everyone has a calling in this world and maybe this is hers. Maybe she will grow up and help find a cure or maybe even find the cure. I told her to embrace it and everything will fall into place. When her friends found out that she was diabetic they all stopped playing with her. Even her best friends mom would not let her stay the night anymore. She now has a new best friend, she also has diabetes. They are perfect for one another. Does he know any other kids with diabetes? If not find him some it will help to be around other kids like him. Find diabetes web sites and look for things that you can do together with other families going through the same things. There are support systems out there you just have to find them. My daughter was almost 700 when she was taken to the hospital. She was in ketoacidosis. She had lost over 20 pounds. She was just skin over bones. She would say things like I hate myself and why me, but after being in therapy she has cut back on it. She will never be the same again. When she is angry it's like I'm not even looking at her. She was always silent and never got in trouble, but not anymore. She says what is on her mind. We have had to work as a family to show her that she is not different she is special. Being in school has been very hard. There is no good system for children with diabetes in school. She always runs high and low when at school. They do not have a nurse so it is all up to her to know what to do. The teachers never listen to her. She was in computer class and dropped to 24 and the teacher wouldn't let her go to the office to test. She told her to go lay her head down. After that happened I got calls from everyone about how sorry they were, but they still do not listen to her. They treat her different than the other kids. She hates going to school, but she is so smart. She learns easy, but because she is treated different she just doesn't want to be there. She has had it hard, but seems to keep going. She is very strong, stronger than I am.