This post was a great summary of the constant mental juggling that happens when you have T1D. After almost 25 years with it, the cgm has been the biggest technological leap for management, but the mental aspect is critical too. I highly recommend seeking out groups where you can meet other T1D parents, because that will be a huge help! Seeing people who understand what you are going through, and can help talk you through situations, or heck, just be an informed listener can be huge! :)
I participated in JDRF as a kid, went to Diabetes camp (which I highly recommend!), and now participate in a young adults t1d group where we meet once a month for appetizers and drinks (pre covid, now we meet virtually).
When I am not doing those things, I also like to write and do projects around t1d.
Here I write about converting a day's worth of cgm data into sound: https://dddiaz.com/post/glucose-sound/ or here I write about using my health-kit data from my apple watch and combining it with my Dexcom data to try and create a ML algorithm that can predict which days I exercised. https://dddiaz.com/post/glucose-datascience/
This post was a great summary of the constant mental juggling that happens when you have T1D. After almost 25 years with it, the cgm has been the biggest technological leap for management, but the mental aspect is critical too. I highly recommend seeking out groups where you can meet other T1D parents, because that will be a huge help! Seeing people who understand what you are going through, and can help talk you through situations, or heck, just be an informed listener can be huge! :)
I participated in JDRF as a kid, went to Diabetes camp (which I highly recommend!), and now participate in a young adults t1d group where we meet once a month for appetizers and drinks (pre covid, now we meet virtually).
When I am not doing those things, I also like to write and do projects around t1d. Here I write about converting a day's worth of cgm data into sound: https://dddiaz.com/post/glucose-sound/ or here I write about using my health-kit data from my apple watch and combining it with my Dexcom data to try and create a ML algorithm that can predict which days I exercised. https://dddiaz.com/post/glucose-datascience/