Where do you live?
Dublin, Ireland
What Makes You Laugh
Our three boys, 7, 5 and 2, especially the two year old when he copies the older two! Ben is the 7 year old with Type 1 Diabetes.
Favorite Sports Team
 Liverpool FC, and soccer, with three boys, what else!! As a family we love to go to the park/playground and run riot!
What Helps You Get Through
My gorgeous children, and how mature and brave and grown up they can be. Even our 2 year old will say, 'Ben do his bloods now'?!
Favorite Meal
Dinner time, when we all sit down together and eat as a family. Particularly at weekends. Unfortunately our poor Ben is the worst eater ever! No potato, no pasta, just bread and chicken and yogurts and cereal!
Helpful Resources
the way we read the sugars, we use a different way, like sugars should be between 4 and 8. Also pumps are rare here, but we got great news on Monday that we're now on the priority list for one! Yippee! Only a couple of hundred kids out of over 2000 are on pumps in Ireland! We use good old fashioned syringes and vials of insulin. Tip for other parents.... Hang in there, it gets easier, talk to parents of other children with diabetes, and don't be afraid to ask for advice!
Date Diagnosed
8th October 2008, aged 5
Question for Everyone
Does it get you down all the time? Is there anyone else with a seriously fussy eater and how do you deal with it? My frustration is seeing that school lunch box coming home still full, and sugars so low.
Diabetes Camp
No, not independent enough yet, but has joined the Sweetpea club, who run camps, through the Diabetes Federation of Ireland.
Vacation
Sun holiday (we do come from rainy Ireland after all!) we go to the canaries every year. Just check sugars more often, the heat can cause hypos and they're so active they sometimes don't even realize! Oh and don't worry about the ice cream treats, they're on their holidays too!
Question For Team
Any advice on how to get through to an extremely fussy, stubborn 7 year old the importance of eating the lunch he has in school!