Information and opinions on health from trumpet_boi.47 at HealthCentral.com. HealthCentral.com is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/298043/index http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/298043/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/298043/index http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/298043/67284/life-diabetes Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:15:22 -0400 trumpet_boi.47 So far, it's been around 3-4 months since I was diagnosed with type 1, and I have been extremely adaptive.  I have only forgotten to take my blood sugar 3 times, and my insulin once.  Even at school it is rarely brought up.  Near the beginning all of my friends were so very interested in what you have to do if you are type 1.  Now, it's just brought up occasionally, like if one of my friends offers me candy at school and I... http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/298043/67284/life-diabetes http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/298043/66416/marching-band Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:40:35 -0400 trumpet_boi.47 Whenever I was diagnosed with type-1 diabetes, i had already been in my high school marching band for over half a year.  I decided to stick with it though, and I'm glad I did.  I was pretty lucky that there was already annother type-1 kid in the band who has helped me out.  She informed me with many good tips.  For such exercise as marching around a football field while holding up a 2-pound horn for a straight 10 minutes, she... http://www.healthcentral.com/diabeteens/c/298043/66416/marching-band