Camps help kids with the disease thrive outside of home
Date Added: 15-09-2005
Read this excerpt about two day camps for diabetic kids.
Camps help kids with diabetes thrive
By MARK ANDERSEN / Lincoln Journal Star
Swim day falls on the last day. It does every single year. The camp kids know it. “They get really excited,” said Camp Hot Shots counselor Holly Foster.
But before kids can jump into the Platte River, their insulin pumps must be unhooked and stored. “There’s this room with all of these pumps, all beeping,” Foster said. “It’s like, ‘Hey, you forgot us.’”
It’s as if — for an hour — the diabetic children attending the camp have left their disease behind.
At Hot Shots and Camp Floyd Rogers, blood-sugar checks are the routines, fit in alongside camp songs and riding horses.
Each year, about 100 diabetic kids and teens spend a week at Floyd Rogers. About 70, ages 8 to 11, attend Hot Shots day camp.
Both camps were held earlier this summer along the Platte River.
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