It's a popular site too. In the most recent week the site averaged more than 10,000 hits per day from 1,013 people. More than 74 percent of these were from the United States, about 13 percent were international, and the rest were unknown. There are three different chat areas, and the chat rooms for teens and for parents flip-flop weekly between number one and number two. The teens talk about diabetes some of the time and the normal stuff that teens talk about the rest of the time, he says.
Parents tend to focus mostly on the concerns that parents have.
This provides them with a virtual support group. It's a great sense of personal satisfaction for bringing what I believe is an excellent diabetes resource to people who otherwise wouldn't have it. The e-mails go a long way towards helping me keep it going. He says that if he is home, he spends a couple of hours every day working on it and 10 to 12 hours on the weekends no matter where he is. Jeff's site proves that on the Web an individual can make a difference.