Book description
As a parent of a child diagnosed with diabetes, you are faced with
overwhelming, and sometimes frightening, questions like: Will my child
be able to eat sweets again? How will I ever be able to let them go out
on their own? What is the newest technology and how can it help my
child? Is a cure really on the horizon?
The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Juvenile Diabetes
helps you cope with the challenges of helping your children live happy,
healthy lives while controlling the disease. This reassuring,
easy-to-use guide features advice on:
- Adjusting to life with
diabetes
- Helping your children take control of their health
- Monitoring diet and insulin levels
- Handling emergencies
- Finding support for you and your children
The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Juvenile Diabetes
helps parents deal with the challenges you and your child face when
living with diabetesóone day at a time.
Moira McCarthy is a
well-known parent in the diabetes community. She is the national
chairman of government advocacy of the Juvenile Diabetes Research
Foundation and volunteers as a Bag of Hope delivery mom to newly
diagnosed families. An award-winning news reporter and magazine
writer, Ms. McCarthy has appeared on CNN, many other national and
local news programs, and twice on the front page of the New York
Times.
Jake Kushner, M. D., was a postdoctoral research fellow at the
Laboratory of Morris White, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the
Joslin Diabetes Center, and Harvard Medical School. He has worked as
an instructor in medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard
Medical School and as a faculty member in the Cell and Molecular
Biology Graduate Group and Cell Biology and Physiology Program at the
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
As a parent of a child diagnosed with diabetes, you are
faced with overwhelming, and sometimes frightening, questions like:
Will my child be able to eat sweets again? How will I ever be able to
let them go out on their own? What is the newest technology and how
can it help my child? Is a cure really on the horizon? The
Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Juvenile Diabetes
helps you cope with the challenges of helping your children live
happy, healthy lives while controlling the disease. This reassuring,
easy-to-use guide features advice on:
- Adjusting to life with
diabetes
- Helping your children take control of their health
- Monitoring diet and insulin levels
- Handling emergencies
- Finding support for you and your children
The
Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Juvenile Diabetes
helps parents deal with the challenges you and your child face when
living with diabetesóone day at a time.
Moira McCarthy is a well-known parent in the diabetes community. She
is the national chairman of government advocacy of the Juvenile
Diabetes Research Foundation and volunteers as a Bag of Hope delivery
mom to newly diagnosed families. An award-winning news reporter and
magazine writer, Ms. McCarthy has appeared on CNN, many other national
and local news programs, and twice on the front page of the New
York Times.
Jake Kushner, M. D., was a postdoctoral research fellow at the
Laboratory of Morris White, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the
Joslin Diabetes Center, and Harvard Medical School. He has worked as
an instructor in medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard
Medical School and as a faculty member in the Cell and Molecular
Biology Graduate Group and Cell Biology and Physiology Program at the
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
