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I was 8 years old when diagnosed and was told I may not live to see 14, as many children just didn't make it with this illness, back in those days.
Good / Bad: 2006 While delivering papers had chest pain rushed to ER developed pneumonia that became more life threatening when it became empyema and could have killed me and sugars were in 500s had to have emergency surgery developed multiple areas of neuropathy.
As you may know, November is recognized as National Diabetes Month, but another special event also takes place this month - World Diabetes Day on November 14th! Established by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1991 in response to the global diabetes epidemic, World Diabetes Day is internationally recognized and recently supported by the UN with the United Nations World Diabetes Day Resolution in December 2006.
My name is Tisha P. and I live in Alabama. I am a 40-year-old who was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 2. Back in those days there were no blood glucose monitors. They didn’t even prick your fingers. They had small pointed razor blades that made small slits on the end of your fingers. […]
September 28, 2008 was the worst day of our lives. We were the perfect family. I am a working mother and we are fortunate that my husband can be a stay at home father. We have a beautiful only child named Noah (in honor of my love of animals). Great life. Great home.
I was diagnosed with type II diabetes after my first doctor told me it was just stress and thyroid making me tired. My new doctor took my blood sugar and the reading was in the high 400s.
In 1990, I had my first experience with gestational diabetes. The care was less than ideal, but I did deliver a premature baby boy. (He’s healthy today).
In May of 2007, I started having horrible headaches that would not go away, no matter what I did. It wasn’t like a migraine or sinus headache, nothing I’d […]
Monday, September 8, 2008 was the day our family officially grew from four to five. The kids stayed home from school and we had breakfast together before heading to the courthouse. Everyone was really excited, as if we were going to the hospital to meet the new addition to our family. At the courthouse, we were […]