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How do you raise a child with diabetes?While every story is different, for village resident Charlotte Pillow the recipe would include one part education and one part inspiration, mixed with creativity, philanthropy and a never-give-up attitude.

There’s no doubt that Pillow, who was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at an early age, is aware of the negative aspects of the disease. But with a decade of experience dealing with diabetes, it has actually become a positive change in her life, and she has spent her more recent years raising awareness of the disease and counseling those who were in the same position as she once was during her elementary school days.

In medical terms, Type 1 Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce a hormone called insulin, which helps get glucose, used by the body for energy, from the bloodstream into the cells of the body. About 5 percent of people with diabetes have this form of the disease.

But in the world of a third grade girl at Hawes Elementary School, it manifested itself in the form of a voracious thirst and appetite and frequent trips to the bathroom.

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