Help for a New Diabetic

Hello everyone!

I'm been absent from the O.C. lately, though not by choice. Between work, my thesis and insanely tight diabetes control, life is just passing me by these days.

Hopefully my thesis will be done in about 6 weeks!! Yeah!

Then we can focus on pregnancy and all that fun stuff :)

In the meantime, my best friend, who works as a counselor at a small Catholic middle school in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco left me a voicemail yesterday about one of her students. He was recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. He's having a hard time adjusting to the disease (like we all did) and needs some words of encouragement.

I'm planning to draft the email early next week, so I thought I'd open it up to the blogsphere. What should I tell him? What were the things you wish you'd known when you were first diagnosed?

Thanks everyone, I'll be sure to report on what words of wisdom I come up with.

Have a great weekend!