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Student Ella Axlerod, 10, shows Island Pacific Academy teacher Leanne Chew how to draw blood to check glucose levels during a briefing to the school's staff on Axelrod's type 1 diabetes.

Posted on: September 8, 2008 at 11:36 a.m.
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Leanna Chew, a math teacher at Island Pacific Academy, could not prick her finger hard enough to draw blood. So after three unsuccessful attempts, little 10-year-old Ella Axelrod finally stuck Chew the same way that Ella jabs herself 10 times a day to test her blood glucose levels.

Geoffrey Cox, 13, demonstrates how he monitors his diabetes at his home in Waialae Nui Ridge.

Posted on: September 8, 2008 at 3:26 p.m.
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Geoffrey Cox used to be happy to show curious friends his glucose test meter, how he pricks his finger to test his blood sugar level and the insulin pump that's attached to his stomach through a tube. 		Day 2: Living with Type 1
Diagnoses of daughter, mom cause lifestyle switch for family (Sep 08, 2008)
Once her daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2001, Tala Laloulu of Kihei, Maui, became so focused on caring for the girl that she neglected her own health.

Malia Agaoan, a junior at Wai'anae High School, with mom Verna. Malia says she must constantly monitor her blood sugar.

Camp teaches Malia, other young diabetics ways to manage disease (Sep 08, 2008)
Malia Agaoan was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was 9. Other than having a disease that dictates that she must monitor her blood sugar levels at all times and never neglect her insulin injections, Malia, now 16, appears to be your typical teenager with the usual assortment of youthful hopes, dreams and challenges.

UH professor, diagnosed at 8, aims 'to be there for my family' (Sep 08, 2008)
ane Kadohiro, 61, recalls that as a high school student with type 1 diabetes she was discouraged from attending college, planning a career or getting married and having a family.
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Phone: 1-888-693-NDEP (6337), TTY: 1-866-569-1162
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