Save the date! Ellie’s book reading/signing was literally put on ice in February. The Springfield-Greene County Library District has rescheduled it for Thursday, June 9, 6:30 p.m. in the Library Center auditorium, 4653 S. Campbell Ave., Springfield, MO.

Ellie will read her primer for children, TYPE ONE DIABETES A-Z, and Natalie Allen, registered dietician and Missouri State University clinical assistant professor, will provide info on how to read nutrition labels, calculate carbs, and make simple family-friendly changes in the kitchen to help manage T1D. The event is free. Books will be available for purchase.

We can’t begin to tell you how valuable it is working with a dietician. Your relationship with food changes when you are diagnosed with T1D. It’s subtle but significant. Suddenly, you’re eating when you aren’t hungry to treat a low blood sugar, delaying meals because high blood sugars have you feeling nauseous, avoiding or stressing over social outings when there aren’t food labels or there are unusual foods, staying hyper focused on how much you eat in order to dose correctly, and shying away from trying new foods due to dosing concerns. Beyond carb counts, dieticians can help and are key figures in your T1D team of experts and healthcare professionals.

Please join us! We’ll learn from dietician Natalie Allen, gain valuable and credible info (as well as practical tips and tasty recipes), enjoy a reading of Ellie’s children’s book about T1D, discuss how to support someone newly diagnosed, identify resilience tools to help manage diabetes distress (burnout), explore the library’s vast health holdings and resources, and meet and mingle with other T1D families.

See you June 9!