You never expect to hear it...

Type 1 Diabetes... that is never what you expect to hear from your childs doctor. "Everything looks good", "he is a big kid", "he's so tall"... those are what we hear. Today we heard "Type 1 Diabetes".

It did not floor me as would be expected. Ihave a bit of experience with diabetes. Someone I was very close to is diabetic. And it is becasue of this person that I am less fearful and feel more informed than I would have been. I am thankful. I can go forward with this and learn without the vail of fear that would accompany it. And that is what must be done. Learn. So Quinn, James and myself are on a mission to educate ourselves.

I know that diabetes is manageable. I have seen it. I know that people with diabetes live happy, full, active lives... I have seen it. To those that showed me, Christine, Tommy, Mr. and Mrs. B... today, I am thankful to you. I am thankful to my wife. Who trusted her gut... did what she thought would be best and took him to the doctor... She saw it. I love you Quinn, good job.

So here we go... learning. I am all about finding good resources, and I am sure our new endocronologist is going to fill us with tons of resources. If you know of a good diabetes resource, a link or a book, anything. Posting a comment here would be nice... thanks in advance. Tomorrow is Diabetes 101 at the hospital.

p.s. When serving the news to grandma... serve it slowly. They don't take well to this kind of stuff. Sorry Mom, didn't mean to just lay it out there like that. And another sorry to my sis Rachel, who had to deal with the aftermath of my telling Mom. I love you guys.