Patrick is a Diabetes Champion! Using multiple daily injections of Lantus & NovoRapid, he manages to keep his numbers in range most of the time. His A1c is on track, and the team at our DEC love to see him and watch his progress. Patrick is responsible for his own tests & injections at school and when I am at work. We are now expanding that role to include weekends and holidays, so that he can learn to respond to his own disease rather than relying on Mom for his clinical expertise.
I know that this is not much more than most 10 year olds with diabetes can do. But Patrick has never known life without tests and injections, and sometimes I can hardly remember those days myself. He was diagnosed at 18 months, and since then has managed to grow into a normal ten-year old boy!!