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Class steps up to help cure Clarissa’s diabetes
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Heather Wright
to be involved. Joanne says even the grandparents were trained on Clarissa’s care and eating habits so they could have sleepovers together.
what she is doing and what the device on her waist does. And that’s not always easy. “They say, ‘ooh what’s that.’ It kinda bugs me a bit.”
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When Clarissa Crowe was diag- nosed with type one diabetes, it turned her family’s world upside down.
The change was the largest, of course, for Clarissa. The 10-year old counts carbs and uses an insu- lin pump to help her body keep her sugar level within an acceptable range.
But it helps to have a supportive class. Almost everyone from her Grade 4/5 class at Centennial came to the Junior Diabetes Research Foundation Walk to Cure Diabetes in Sarnia Saturday to support their friend.
Last year, the Lambton Centen- nial student was home sick, lying on the couch with a fever and vomiting and no energy to do anything. When she told her dad, Paul, she was seeing double, he rushed her to the emergency room. It wasn’t long before they found out she was diabetic.
And she knows she can’t have everything her friends eat. “At school I sit beside my best friend and she will sometimes have gum- mies or a piece of cake and I just kind of have to say no,” Clarissa says.
Together, they raised about $1,500 for the cause. “It’s awe- some. The support from the school has been amazing,” says Joanne.
Clarissa Crowe, 10, and her parents, Paul and Joanne, had lots of sup- port from their friends
at Lambton Centennial School during the Walk to Cure Diabetes Saturday in Sarnia.
Heather Wright Photos
Mom, Joanne, says the diagnosis came “right out of left eld. There was no hint.”
Joanne says Clarissa can have some sweets but “you don’t eat a whole piece of cake... you have a couple of bites of cake.”
That support is important to Clarissa and to her parents who are still learning to adjust. “It’s still overwhelming sometimes,” says Paul. “There are good days and there are bad days and there are days we don’t know if she’ll end up in the hospital for the night.”
It was tough, admits Paul. “It was a huge learning curve and an extremely huge lifestyle change,” he says.
Clarissa has had to learn to deal with questions from people about
And everyone in the family had
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Cody McArthur takes a run at the high jump and clears the bar during the Track and Field meet at John Knox Chris an School in Wyoming. The winners of the elementary school
event go to regional compe ons in Windsor.
Heather Wright Photos
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