Hi im Emma. Im 14 years old and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when i was 4 years old. August 16th 2004 the day i can never change. It seemed like a normal day a 4 year old going to day care well it did not turn out so normal. A kid went to daycare sick and i ended up catching it. Yea so what a cold that's what your thinking and thats what everyone else thought too! But guess what while i was sick the cold attacked my pancreas and my pancreas stopped working. By the time i was out of the hospital i was doing my own finger pricks! But i was not doing my own shots. When i was around 5 or 6 i got my first pump! It was amazing so much easier then shots!
Im going to skip a few years to the summer of 2012 when i was 12 years old still on my pump but i went through a lot and my doctor took me of my pump and put me back on shots. I was super upset but i understood that he was doing it for my health. I was doing well my a1c was 10.3 but came down to 9.9. Then down hill i went again :( and my a1c went back up! Urg this sucks! how do i face my doctor with a a1c of 11.4!!
Summer of 2013, 13 years old. I went to a diabetes camp called camp care free best camp in the world! I talked to my doctor every day trying to get him to let me go back on my pump, As soon as i got home BAM! Im back on my pump! ahhh i want to scream im soo happy! I have been doing great! And feel like im bringing my a1c down!
Diabetes is a scary thing but its a part of me and im going to have to face the world and not let diabetes control me. This is ME! and diabetes IS a PART of ME!
lancaster, NH
