FAMILY

How An Invisible Disease Changed Our Lives

The realities of Type 1 diabetes

Barbara Borzi
Family Matters
Published in
9 min readAug 25, 2021

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Photo by Mykenzie Johnson on Unsplash

When walking through grocery store aisles you don’t typically see a five-year old reading nutritional labels or hear his mom ask him if he is high. As strange as this may seem to others, it had become my norm. When my son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of three, our family was thrown…

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Barbara Borzi
Family Matters

Author of LIVING THE SKY LIFE, flight attendant, runner, lover of dogs, nature, reading, and travelling