- Where do you live?
- Highlands Ranch, CO (suburb of Denver)
- What Makes You Laugh
- Our 10-month old daughter always manages to make everyone giggle. America's Funniest Videos is a favorite around here.
- Favorite Sports Team
- Going for walks around our neighborhood/going to the park.
- What Helps You Get Through
- Lots of prayer and support from family. My parents have been an awesome help to us and are involved in our daughter's daily blood sugar tests and injections when she is with them during the day 3x/week.
- Favorite Meal
- We are pizza lovers but try to limit it because of how bad it throws off our daughter's blood sugars.
- Helpful Resources
- Our doctors and the medical team at the Barbara Davis Center near Denver, CO have been invaluable in guiding us on our journey with diabetes. I have also found it helpful to find online resources and support groups to read about other people's journeys and struggles. Also, be open with your experience with diabetes because you would be surprised how many people/acquaintances have experience with diabetes.
- Date Diagnosed
- August 21st, 2009 at age 3
- Question for Everyone
- We have wondered if there are any resources out there that can help connect us to some daycare options in our area that have experience dealing with t1 diabetes.
- Diabetes Camp
- Not yet, she is still too young but we look forward to the day when she has that opportunity!
- Vacation
- Just going on vacation is our favorite type of vacation :). We haven't been on a major vacation yet since diagnosis but have spent a week in the mountains a couple of hours away from home. It was a good practice vacation but I am not looking forward to packing all the supplies and flying to California this summer.
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The Knox Family
3 Comments on “The Knox Family”
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Gayle Sep 17, 2011 (5 months ago)There are rice flour alternatives for your pizza crust. I am a grandmother who is participating in my 8 year old granddaughters menu planning. Now that I have discovered rice pastas and flour, there are a whole slew of recipes I can concoct for her! She was diagnosed August 26, 2011, so everything is still so new to our family, but I think having made phyllo dough spinach spanakopita, soy hot dogs wrapped in phyllo (pigs in a blanket) and rattatoile (sp?!) I have made some major headway this week!
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Kristi Swenson Mar 29, 2011 (10 months ago)She can start Camp Sweet Pea at age 6! It's in Fort Collins sponsored by Poudre Valley Hospital and is 2 days. We started going 3 years ago & our daughter has great fun! We plan our mini vacation every summer & stay at a hotel while our oldest daughter is off having fun at Camp Sweet Pea (it's from 10am to 3pm for 2 days) - we enjoy the pool at the hotel with our youngest. Then there's Camp Colorado is the overnight camp for 5 days they can attend when they turn 8. Seems young, but our daughter went & loved it!
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Donna Talbot May 15, 2010 (2 years ago)
Sorry to say the daycare was a huge problem for my daughter whose son was diagnosed at 10 months
We eventually found our "angel"..a lady who has a private daycare in her home. She had helped care for a sister with cystic fibrosis growing up and knew that sometimes people need a little help.
She had never dealt with type 1 before but simply asked what she needed to learn. I could have cried after so many rejections..my grandson has diabetes, not the plague!
Best wishes to you and your beautiful family. God bless
Donna Talbot
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