I stop and think why is it me that has to get diabetes and not one of my brother's or someone elase. I always have to stop and think about what I am doing before I can go on with the next thing I need to that day. sometimes there will be days when I can check about 22 times a day (every hour) and there are times when I can only test about 4 to 6 times a day. I kown if I want to stay alive I will have to do my day to day life with Type 1 Diabetes in my life. And if I have something pland than I can still do that but with Type 1 Diabetes in my life. Than I have to stop myself and say I am not the only teen/kid living with diabetes. I think about the song "A little bit longer" by Nick Jonas. I love to hear that song it remind's me that I am not the only one in the world with Type 1 Diabetes. And I kown that one day they will find a cure for Diabetes. Right now I just have to rember to test,eat and walk and just make sure I dont go to high or too low. Like the other day I was in the truck with my dad and I want back to lay down intell we got to wal-mart. IT was not very long intell we were at wal-mart and I got checked and I was 38. which is weird cause The last time I pass-out was last year at thanksgiving and I was like 43 but I want lower this time. But that is just one more thing to make sure that I dont go low or high. And to make sure my A1C is just right. I juse feel like I am getting no were with my diabetes like I am along or something.
hi Jaimie :) I want to say you and my teen and all that deal with type 1 make me proud of your strength and determination.I can't say what it's like to walk in your shoes but I can see from a moms eyes and heart.And with my heart I believe we will see that cure one day.You are getting somewhere everyday and with every step you take in your d care.Best Wishes :)
Thanks meme, I hope that some day there is a cure. Yes I too think that us teen's and kid's have strength and determination that we have and we do our best to to get some were with our diabetes.
I asked myself that. A little different. I ask why after 52 years, did I become a type 1. No on else in my family is???? Just wanted to let you know, "I feel what you're going through"
I started my Type 1 when I was 6, in 1945. Being so young made it easy for me to adjust. It seems to me that is an advantage, being diagnosed so young. I don't remember what it was like before my diagnosis.
I realize it is more difficult for you, being diagnosed in your teens. Is it possible for you to be with other Type 1 teens in your area? There may be a diabetes support group there, I found our local support group by contacting the local hospital, they gave me the phone number of the group.
The next best thing is joining us here or on other diabetes sites. www.childrenwithdiabetes.com has a forum for teens.
Jaimie, I have lived with Type 1 for 64 years and I am very healthy. My diabetes has not kept me from doing anything I really wanted to do. Take good care of yourself and you can live to be a healthy old geezer like me! Lol!
Richard, I was Dx when I was age 3 1/2. I had to grow-up way to eary than my friend's did. I wore this when I had a hard time with my BG's being high. Keith, I kown the same thing. I am the only one with diabetes in my family. Well beside a cuzin on my mom's saide that I have never meet.