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Lifetime commitment: What it’s like for kids with type 1 diabetes and their parents

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Lifetime commitment: What it’s like for kids with type 1 diabetes and their parents
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Illnesses are part of childhood, but nothing could have prepared these mothers for the moment their kids, just toddlers at the time, were diagnosed with a disease that they will carry for a lifetime.



In October 2017, Joanne Valencia noticed that her three-year-old daughter, Sophia, had been drinking too much water and sleeping all the time. Joanne thought Sophia was just building healthy habits as she started school.



But in the following months, Joanne observed her da

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