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Article: Camps for children with illnesses on the rise: normalcy and fun help with coping and healing of disease and disabilities.
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- Camping Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Carol LeBoeuf will never forget it...the day her twelve-year-old son David came running out of the Clara Barton Day Camp in North Oxford, Massachusetts, yelling, "Mom, they're all just like me!" David, who has had Type 1 diabetes since early childhood and has been attending the Heard Street Discovery Academy in nearby Worcester where he is the only child with diabetes in a school of 260, had made a discovery of his own. There were other kids just like him. And he--and they--could have a serious medical condition, one that is alarmingly on the rise in this country, and still enjoy the carefree summer activities of normal children.
Carol says, "David has always ...