Ava, Isaac and Elisabeth go to Karate despite Type 1 Diabetes

Diabetes Squared: When you have two little kids, going out is never spontaneous. Has everyone gone to the bathroom? Is the diaper changed? Do you have water, snacks, the favorite toy? When you have two little kids who have diabetes, add all that plus essential lifesaving supplies. Depending where you're going and at what time, our backpack is always armed with juice and sugar wafers for low blood sugars, carb snacks, no carb snacks, 2 glucose meters, glucose strips and alcohol swabs. And if you're out for a while, we add insulin, syringes, the insulin pen, pen needles, food for each of their meals because the kids have to eat every 2 to 3 hours and the Calorie King, an incredible index of foods and their carb counts.

This film shows what happened one Saturday morning when the kids went to their karate class. We were on time -- an accomplishment. But once there, Isaac had a completely unexplainable low blood sugar, although when are they ever really explainable.

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