My 17 year old son was diagnosed 6/30/97 at age 5. The best thing that happened to us at that point was to get to go to Bearskin Meadows Family Camp 6 weeks after he was diagnosed. They tossed us a lifeline. I encourage everyone to go to www. DYF.org and check out their camps. They also need some help fundraising. We met the most incredible people there, and they tossed us a lifeline of diabetes management.