Without Envy

Raising a child with type 1 diabetes to live life to the fullest, and other things that make us happy

Category: JDRF

Payday

Back in the late summer my local branch of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation invited me to take part in, among other things, the logistical and production planning of this year’s Walk to Cure Diabetes. When the offer came, I thought it was long overdue as Franca and I had been noodling them since Lia’s [...]

The Genius of Intuition

There is something I just don’t get yet. For as long as we’ve been administering Lia’s insulin through a pump we routinely find ourselves relying on intuition when determining her dose. A word problem of how this happens might look something like this: Lia and her dad are on a field trip to visit a [...]

Walk to Cure

Lia’s Walk to Cure Video