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We hope that you find this site informative with all its resources about T-1 Luminary Enlightenment and Type 1 diabetes.   This will also be the best way to keep up on our progress through the posts on our blog.

Finally, we’d like to thank the team at Solostream for their inspiration, energy and generous support in making this web site possible.  We’re so excited to be using their WordPress Themes which makes it possible for non-techs like us to manage and publish a great looking site.  If you are looking for a great web design company, be sure to consider their services.

We made it to the bright lights of the big city when we got to share the T-1 Enlightenment story on NBC’s today show.  Everyone was really nice and we had a fun time meeting all the great people in New York City who want to help get the word out.

A child’s body is constantly growing and changing, therefore the amount of insulin a child requires can vary from day to day.  There are many different factors involved to determine the amount of insulin needed and too much insulin in the body will result in low blood sugar levels resulting in seizures, coma or death.  Unfortunately, determining the amount of insulin is not a science, but rather an art.  Adrenaline, growth hormones and stress on the body can all affect blood sugar levels and the amount of insulin required.  Someone with type 1 diabetes must calculate the amount of insulin for everything they eat.  You will often see moms inconspicuously counting every goldfish cracker their child eats at a birthday party or trying to guess the carbohydrate/sugar content in an orange at a soccer game.

Normally, insulin in the body starts working the second a person looks at food.  However, for someone with type 1 diabetes the insulin that is injected can take two to three hours to metabolize in the body, resulting in very unstable blood sugars throughout the day.  High and low blood sugars affect how a person feels resulting in blurred vision, headaches, nausea, confusion, irritability and exhaustion.

Parents of children with type 1 diabetes are up all night testing blood sugar levels — giving apple juice to prevent low blood sugars and administering insulin to prevent high blood sugars.  There is no vacation from diabetes.  Every 2 hours of every day—every meal, every sports activity, every play date, when they are healthy, when they have a cold, and even when they are sleeping—parents are making decisions to maintain tight control of the diabetes in their little ones.

It is a misconception that you can grow out of type 1 diabetes or that it can be controlled by diet and exercise like type 2 diabetes.  Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease — it is not a result of obesity or a poor diet.  While diabetes is sometimes genetic in most cases the cause is unknown.  Unfortunately there is no cure for type 1 diabetes YET!   Only with a national enlightenment will we be able to develop a cure for type 1 diabetes and other chronic diseases that affect children.  There have been many amazing advances in care over the last five years and we are grateful for anything that will help the quality of the day to day life for our children.  However, our children deserve more… they deserve a cure!  Thank you for helping us light that way to a cure.

Directions for November 5th:

1.     Fill luminary bag with 2 cups of sand, rice or small rocks.
2.    Place tea light inside the bag.
3.    In the morning, place the bag outside your front door, visible from the street, and light the candle as soon as it gets dark.
4.    Keep candle lit in honor of the Type 1 Luminary Lighting event.
5.    Hang the Type 1 Diabetes Fact Sheet on your front door for people to read and become “enlightened.”
6.    On the morning and night of the Luminary Lighting event, take pictures with your luminaries in front of your home/street and send to P.O. Box 2813 Westport, CT 06880 or email to czjdrf@gmail.com

Hopefully the weather will be great on November 5th, if it is raining or too windy to light the luminaries then wait until the next best evening.   November is Diabetes awareness month so we have the entire month to enlighten the Nation.

Keep your luminaries in your sock drawer for safe keeping until November 5th -or- keep a note in your sock drawer to remind yourself where you have them stored.  (If we all keep the luminaries in the same place then we can remind each other where to find them on Nov. 5th and for years to come.)

Note: All luminary bags are flame resistant.  However, be sure to be careful and do not leave the bags unattended.