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Author: Sue LeBreton

Sue LeBreton is a health and wellness journalist. She has been caring for a child with diabetes for over eight years and programming an insulin pump, often in the middle of the night, for seven years. When chatting with well meaning strangers she seizes the opportunity to educate them about diabetes.

My 12-year-old son has been living with Type 1 diabetes for many years. Diabetes is a challenging disease to manage, and I have come to respect it as an adversary. We monitor him 24 hours a day, seven days a week.