Children adapt to Type 1 diabetes

Restless from math calculations using play money, the second-graders look relieved when their teacher instructs them to gather their lunches and line up. They're heading down a stairwell to the schoolyard when Reilly Reynolds, a sturdy 8-year-old with blond hair and a cherubic face, remembers a pre-lunch appointment. She turns around and bounds back upstairs to the nurse's office.

By Kathleen Kelleher

October 26, 2009