Sad but true, kids keep getting diagnosed....

[karen]

.....with this lovely disease. Interesting discussion/read on the Today show yesterday morning.

How one man's living with diabetes - Today, Weekend Edition - MSNBC.com (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15445887/)

[Stuboy]

That poor little boy! :(

makes me fear for my own children...

[barbarac]

Anyone know statistics for grandparents? I was diagnosed at age 48--sudden. Just a year or so before glucose was normal on a routine blood test. Hit hard and fast it seemed, but they feel it was a virus. There is no family history--I am the first--my mother never believed I had it.

On visiting my son and his family (out of state) I found myself sort of being questioned by the other grandma about my condition. She did not say it outright, but I could tell she was wonderring about our grandkids. Now I feel like if one or more should come down with it I will be blamed. To tell the truth I worry about it myself some. I really don't think mine was genetic, so would there be a change of passing it on genetically? Neither of my sons have any signs of it.

[dgrilli]

I believe if this little boy went to my Hospital emergency room in Somerset Pennsylvania the Emergency Room Doctor would have offered a Metformin Tablet.

This Doctor would argue with you in an Arabic Accent that he knows better and that he is not permitted to give you insulin.

My Do I wish I could punish that Hospital for what they did to me and others, The Sad thing is what the future holds for anyone going to this hospital in a state like that.

That poor little boy had a Diabetic Dad who knew what to do. This little boy was so fortunate.

I wonder how many other places are like the Somerset Pennsylvania? I went to this hospital in a last ditch effort because I was so sick and the Lab Report of my Blood Sugar was 494 and to be offered a Metformin Tablet was the most cruelest thing I could imagine. I remember not eating for along time. Was just to sick to the stomach.

Why doesn't any Diabetis organizations stop this protocol?

Third World Care in the Richest Country on Earth?

[SueM]

" Now he’s been robbed of his childhood, I think, and he will never know what life is like without diabetes."

Lucky lad this way he will accept his diabetes and get on with life instead of feeling sorry for himself.
Diabetes is how life is as far as he is concerned.

I'm a 4th generation diabetic always thought it was 3rd but doing some family history find I had a Great Great uncle who had diabetes. He was before insulin was invented :frown:
My Great Aunt was also diabetic, as is my Uncle.
All the diabetes is on my fathers side of the family.
All type 1's.

[Eri's mom]

Poor boy :(

I still wonder why they never admitted Eri...bg over 1000mg/dL with large ketones...and sent us home after 4 hours ...not even in an ER! The endo's office. They said that they had 12 new dx's that day.
Eri was never hopstialized until July of 2003..3 yrs and 7 months after she was dx'd...for DKA.

Maybe getting dx'd at a younger age is easier(Eri was 6).
What gets me is my other daughters fasting bg was over 125...she was 145 I believe, when they tested her the week b/f last.

[Amanda_Jo22]

This article is based on his book...you can find it at amazon Amazon.com: Cheating Destiny: Living With Diabetes, America's Biggest Epidemic: Books: James S. Hirsch (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618514619/ref=pd_rvi_gw_3/002-3649278-3860816)