KATIE BACON - Katie Bacon is a former executive editor at The Atlantic. Her blog is Eating With Bisi.
DEC 7 2012, 9:23 AM ET 11
No one knows how to prevent type 1 diabetes. But there are emerging reasons to wonder if we could have done more.
A few months ago, our six-year-old daughter, Bisi, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. It's a condition she will have to manage carefully for the rest of her life, to avoid the many terrible potential complications of the disease. Since the diagnosis, my husband and I have often said to one another things like: "What if we had...?" "Maybe if we had ..." And the other will respond by (half) jokingly quoting back the text on the box of diabetes information we received at the hospital from the Lilly pharmaceutical company (which makes the insulin Bisi now must take with her meals): "Pause. Take a deep breath. And remember: You couldn't have prevented what's happening with your child, so try not to beat yourself up."
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