Diabetic Living Australia

DOUBLE TROUBLE

n some ways, Eddie’s diabetes gets easier to manage the older he gets – and in other ways it becomes more challenging, or at least challenging in different ways. For example, he’s much more comfortable with us injecting him now than he was as a three-year-old. And the insulin pump we started using 12 months after he was diagnosed, combined with the continuous glucose monitoring system he’s got, has allowed us to gain much finer control of his blood [glucose] levels and means we can be more flexible

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