Welcome to Diabetes Forums!
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features.
Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today!
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact us.
|
 | | 
04-12-2006, 09:12 AM
| | Member
I am a: Parent | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Arizona
Posts: 239
| | | Camps
Has anyone been to any of the diabetes camps, conventions, etc? Sounds a little odd to me. Then again, I had the same feeling about forums until I joined this one. I see a couple of camps and conventions geared towards families, but I wonder if they are worth the expense. 
__________________ Alisha
Mommy to Taylor, 5yrs old
dx'd 13 Nov 03
last AIC -7.0 in Oct 06
:****mate: Quote:
"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
Bill Cosby
| |
04-12-2006, 09:36 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sacramento California
Posts: 2,515
| | | I worked at BearSkin Meadow in Kings Canyon National Park (south of Yosemite) for several years. It is a great camp!! They have family camps there, and would highly reccommend it. |
04-12-2006, 09:55 AM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New Jersey
Posts: 795
| | Quote: |
Originally Posted by BriOnH I worked at BearSkin Meadow in Kings Canyon National Park (south of Yosemite) for several years. It is a great camp!! They have family camps there, and would highly reccommend it. | My friend took her daughter to diabetes camp in NJ...I can find out the name if you like. Personally, I'd rather go to yosemite! |
04-12-2006, 12:07 PM
|  | Junior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Hereford/Wakefield
Posts: 98
| | | I went on holidays for diabetic kids when I was younger. For me it wasnt so much about learning more about diabetes, but meeting people who are in the same position as you are. I had a brilliant time, the staff were excellent and would recommend it to anyone. |
04-19-2006, 10:07 AM
| | Junior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Park Hills, Kentucky
Posts: 49
| | I went a couple of times as a child...oh how they made me eat healthy stuff and measure everything!!! I had fun except one time they had a dance and they wouldnt let you have a snack or a drink unless they saw ya slow dance with a boy.....back then boys had cuties.....come to find out the snack was a yogurt and it wasnt even worth dancing to get hehehehe  But it was nice to talk to ppl who have the same problems as u do!!!
__________________
Shellybelly  |
04-19-2006, 11:26 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Posts: 1,043
| | I was sort of coerced by my endo and mom into going to both a summer and a winter diabetes camp after I was diagnosed. I didn't really want to but I agreed. Neither were exceptional, I actually didn't like them, but that was when I think I was still in denial and didn't want to be surrounded by other diabetics! I absolutely hated being around them because it was all a competition: "I've been to the hospital X number of times... oh yeah? well I've passed out THIS number of times, I beat you!" I couldn't understand why they were competing for this! I enjoyed the outdoors activities, but I didn't really learn anything and that was very disappointing being a new diabetic.
But, I feel differently now. I would love to have diabetic friends or at least know somebody in person here! It took me a long time to search out a forum because of my old feelings, but joining this place has been one of the best decisions I ever made. If I had a diabetic child, I would want him/her to go, but I wouldn't force it. I'm sure they're a lot different these days. At least now I can laugh with my mom about it - she honestly had no clue I detested it so much and she felt so bad! 
__________________
T1 16 years, on Lantus, Apidra and Regular.
"Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist." |
04-21-2006, 07:57 PM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Victoria, BC
Posts: 706
| | | We should plan a Diabetes Forums Summer Camp 2007! I would want to go. A bit of kayaking, some fishing, some BBQing, some hiking, some games. We could have it partially sponsored by the pump companies, Eli Lilly, BD, Aventis, LifeScan, MediSense, etc. to help control the costs.
Camp! It's not just for kids, you know!
__________________
I was diagnosed in spring 1991.
I am currently on Lantus/Novorapid MDI.
I used to use a Minimed 506 (1993-2005).
My last A1C was 6.0 (September 2006). |
04-21-2006, 08:45 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Hometown: Granger, IN; currently: Bloomington, IN
Posts: 75
| | | I personally went to a camp when I was 10, 4 years after I was diagnosed. I don't know about others' camp experiences, but I hated it. All we could talk about and do had to do with diabetes, and it was more depressing than uplifting to meet other diabetic kids. We had meal plans at that time, and they made us follow our meal plan to the letter -- we couldn't even substitute things like starches for fruits if our meal plan didn't allow it! Again, maybe it was just the camp I went to, but I wouldn't suggest going to a summer diabetes camp. I wouldn't do it again as I don't see the value in it. The only positive thing to come out of it was that they made me learn how to give myself injections. It was good, but sort of a submersion-by-fire approach. I think it's more important to get diabetic kids involved in summer activities just like other kids -- I danced and went to cheerleading and golf camp, to name a few things. Those activities were more beneficial and rewarding in the long-run. Well, those are my two cents! Hope that helps!
-Maggie
__________________
-Maggie  |
04-21-2006, 09:20 PM
|  | Super Moderator
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Mid-West
Posts: 7,131
| | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Tokyo Cate We should plan a Diabetes Forums Summer Camp 2007! I would want to go. A bit of kayaking, some fishing, some BBQing, some hiking, some games. We could have it partially sponsored by the pump companies, Eli Lilly, BD, Aventis, LifeScan, MediSense, etc. to help control the costs.
Camp! It's not just for kids, you know! | I really like your idea, Cate.  That would be an awesome way to for adults who never went to camp in their youth to participate....and just think, no "camp leaders" could tell us what to do about food & the like, lol. 
__________________ ALL my love, Carwy & Best wishes for a healthy new beginning!
Saying prayers for him & all our friends, every day.
_______
"We ALL have our own opinions & beliefs...But I'd appreciate folks a he** of a lot more if they didn't belittle one another when they disagreed!!!"
______
Pumps & Meters Used:
MM506,7,8,11 & 12, Cozmo, Animas 1200 & 1250 Many
A1C: 6.4
Type I 26yrs, pumping 12
|
04-21-2006, 09:28 PM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Victoria, BC
Posts: 706
| | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Dewey I really like your idea, Cate. That would be an awesome way to for adults who never went to camp in their youth to participate....and just think, no "camp leaders" could tell us what to do about food & the like, lol. | It could make for a fun chance for some of us to meet each other, but the world is a pretty big place. Where to have it?
__________________
I was diagnosed in spring 1991.
I am currently on Lantus/Novorapid MDI.
I used to use a Minimed 506 (1993-2005).
My last A1C was 6.0 (September 2006). |
04-23-2006, 03:15 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 770
| | I like the idea too!
Coney Island is nice this time of the year... 
But, as for places that are NOT in my back yard... I dunno, New Orleans? The economy there's still gonna stink in 2007. Or someplace in Europe? Flights to London are hella cheap if you get them far enough in advance (from the East Coast of the US anyway)
__________________
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
- Dorothy Parker
T1 18 years
26 years old
Minimed Paradigm 522... yay!
|
04-23-2006, 05:17 PM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Victoria, BC
Posts: 706
| | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Erin I dunno, New Orleans? The economy there's still gonna stink in 2007. Or someplace in Europe? Flights to London are hella cheap if you get them far enough in advance (from the East Coast of the US anyway) | East Coast of North America or Europe have my vote. If I went to the West Coast, I would want to go visit my family.
__________________
I was diagnosed in spring 1991.
I am currently on Lantus/Novorapid MDI.
I used to use a Minimed 506 (1993-2005).
My last A1C was 6.0 (September 2006). |
04-23-2006, 07:02 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: CT
Posts: 4,588
| | oohhh, ooohh, ooohh, I'm in! .
I never was excited about attending camp as a kid( so I don't think I did), but this sounds like fun! . I vote east coast US too... just would be a bit easier for me to go.
__________________ I’ve faced myself
To cross out what I’ve become
Erase myself
And let go of what I’ve done
Put to rest
What you thought of me
Well I cleaned this slate
With the hands
Of uncertainty
So let mercy come
And wash away
What I’ve done
I’ve faced myself
To cross out what I’ve become
Erase myself
And let go of what I’ve done
Linkin Park~ "What I've Done"  |
04-23-2006, 07:40 PM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Victoria, BC
Posts: 706
| | Quote: |
Originally Posted by am1977 I never was excited about attending camp as a kid( so I don't think I did), but this sounds like fun! . I vote east coast US too... just would be a bit easier for me to go. | Don't forget Eastern Canada! It could be a prescription drug adventure for the Americans on the Forum. And cheap shopping trip overall.
Truly, if there is enough interest, this is something that we could organise for summer 2007.
__________________
I was diagnosed in spring 1991.
I am currently on Lantus/Novorapid MDI.
I used to use a Minimed 506 (1993-2005).
My last A1C was 6.0 (September 2006). |
04-23-2006, 07:53 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 71
| | | Dear Tokyo and others, Count me in!!--Yvonne |
| |
| Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | |
|  | | » Site Navigation | | Diabetesforums.com | | | Resource Directory | | | Contact Zone | | | |
