Raising a Child with Type 1 Diabetes
Blaise Tanner was a happy, healthy sixteen month old beautiful boy, who always had the ability to make everyone he saw laugh. One day he began to feel sick and just could not get better. After two months of becoming worse with various wrong diagnoses, on July 6, 2003, Blaise was diagnosed with Type 1 juvenile diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is a chronic disease in which the pancreas does not receive insulin properly, and the child must be injected with insulin for the rest of their life. Syreeta Henry, Blaise's mother, was now faced with not only being a new mother, but also meeting life changing challenges as a mother of an eighteen-month old Type 1 diabetic child.
Syreeta first had to understand Type 1 diabetes and how it affects the pancreas before she could learn how to control it. At Children's Hospital, where Blaise stayed for five days, Syreeta had a variety of classes she was required to take. If she did not understand the disease, it could......

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Title: Dealing With A Diabetic Child
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