One of the things that's most shocking about diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes is that in some cases parents do identify the symptoms and askfor a test but are told by their GP that it is probably just a virus or infection and that they should come back in a week if symptoms persist.
It's time forparents and students to look at the entire enterprise of higher education and ask -- how, when, where, for whom, in what studies and at what cost is a college education appropriate?