A 10-year-old Camas boy and his parents are teaming up with Camas Meadows Golf Club and Tommy O’s Restaurants to present the next performance in the “Concerts for a Cause” series.
Blake Bell, son of Brad and Dana Bell, has had type 1 diabetes for three years. A doctor identified Blake’s weight loss and constant thirst as classic symptoms of the disease.
Brad Bell said their family — including grandparents, aunts and uncles — have become educated about biochemistry, physiology and nutrition since the diagnosis.
“We learned how food affects blood sugar, how mood swings can indicate sugar highs and lows, the many kinds of insulin and how to mix them,” he said. “We were scared and overwhelmed.
“When Blake was diagnosed, one of the doctors predicted that my wife and I would be very different people in a year’s time,” Brad Bell added. “Amazingly, we are. We have refocused the energy we spent worrying, to promoting awareness about diabetes and raising funds for research we believe will lead to better ways of managing the disease and, eventually, a cure.”
