Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Life with diabetes

Yesterday Skowt had her latest checkup at Children's Hospital to monitor her diabetes. It's been 8 months now. Wow! She is doing fine and her numbers look good. We'll go back in another 3 months. Every 3 months until she is 18.

So, I got to thinking and thought I'd do a list of famous people with diabetes. They've been telling her from the beginning not to let it stop her and she can still be anything she wants to be. As I started looking for people to list, I realized there were way more than I thought.

Here are some of the more recognizable ones I came across:



Check out any of the links below for many more (including...Elvis?):

http://www.dlife.com/dLife/do/ShowContent/inspiration_expert_advice/famous_people/

http://www.kidzworld.com/article/10515-celebrities-with-diabetes

http://www.defeatdiabetes.org/Media/famous_diabetics.htm

http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read/2000/06/01/1929.html



2 comments:

Sooz said...

I'm so glad to hear that she's doing so well!

Aim said...

What a great list! Good thinking, MOM! :-) At least she can see that diabetes is not the worst thing in the world and she's not the only one who has to deal.