Tag: family

It gave you confidence and independence and made you feel accepted and normal

Keywords: Type 1 Diabetes

What I absolutely love about the diabetic online community is that it consists of more than just diabetics. Parents, friends, and family members of type 1’s scatter the online space yearning to connect with others about how to raise, support, and love their type 1 counterparts.

https://cupofoj.com/2020/05/08/raising-a-type-1-diabetic-child-an-interview-with-my-mom

There are very few stories out there about what life looks like for a disability family after the parents are gone, so I’m offering ours up as a gift

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I care too much about the other siblings who are carrying time-bombs of their own. I care too much about the parents who are doing their best to protect their children. I want to draw a map where no map exists because I know there are people still navigating the wilderness I left behind. I want you to have a better journey than I had.

https://sibstoryca.wordpress.com/2021/03/29/stories

Once things settled down slightly with his health, it was time for me to seriously try and deal with the impact everything that had happened had had on myself

I’m not going to sugar coat it, it’s been hard. Really fucking hard! I’ve said several times, I wish I could have read someone else’s experiences to let me know that I wasn’t alone in what I was thinking, feeling, crying about, obsessing over, and it was all part of the process and perfectly normal.

https://copingwithmypartnersheartattack.wordpress.com/2020/06/18/example-post-3