My diabetic son, my inspiration
Friday, June 17, 2016
I didn’t know what type 1 diabetes was nor did I know what BG and insulin were. What I knew was when your child gets sick, you give them medicine and rest and they get better. This time, I could not make the condition go away; it was there to stay no matter what.
I remember when he was hospitalised at Gaborone Private Hospital for seven days. He was with his dad as I had to be with our younger one-year-old son, he kept on asking us what diabetes was.
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