New Math
These works are about the daily frustrations facing those who live with Juvenile Diabetes. Type 1 Kids and their families suffer a wide variety of daily challenges associated with this affliction. Some people think Diabetes is a result of eating to much sugar. No. It's more complicated. Some think that it's just a treatable condition with no real complications. No. It's more than that as well. Without getting into the differences between Type One and Type Two Diabetes, the reality is that diabetes is a killer. Heartbreaking. Devastating. Infuriating.
With this series, I want to do my part to raise more awareness about the very real side of Type One Diabetes. I chose the title "New Math" because, Type One Diabetes never makes any sense. In one way, the title refers to the New Math kids are learning in school that I don't always understand. (My kid openly hates Math.) Treating Type One Diabetes requires your full attention. You are always under pressure to calculate numbers correctly. No mistakes. If you are the parent of a child with Type 1, you know how it feels to do everything right in the equation and still have no explanation for why the glucose numbers are the way they are. It just doesn't make any sense.
More frustration and anxiety.
With this series, I want to do my part to raise more awareness about the very real side of Type One Diabetes. I chose the title "New Math" because, Type One Diabetes never makes any sense. In one way, the title refers to the New Math kids are learning in school that I don't always understand. (My kid openly hates Math.) Treating Type One Diabetes requires your full attention. You are always under pressure to calculate numbers correctly. No mistakes. If you are the parent of a child with Type 1, you know how it feels to do everything right in the equation and still have no explanation for why the glucose numbers are the way they are. It just doesn't make any sense.
More frustration and anxiety.
