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This is one of the contributions to:DIABETES ESSAY AND POEM COMPETITION 2009
When I was 2 ½, I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. After spending the whole August Bank Holiday being sick my mum took me to the doctors. The doctor rushed me to the hospital and I had to have lots and lots of tests. The doctor told my parents that I had diabetes. After the shock, my parents were taught how to do an injection practising on an orange they had to do 2 injections each day. When I returned to Day Nursery, I had to take with me some snacks to boost my energy levels in case I had a hypo.
I started primary school when I was 5. One day I suddenly started to cry and the teacher rung my mum and she came and done my blood sugar which was under 4. As it was a Friday afternoon the teacher said I could go home early yipee!! Once my teacher in year 2 accidentally ate my banana which was kept on her desk ready for the afternoon snack. Thankfully the teacher had a apple on her desk.-yum. In my school there are only 2 pupils who have diabetes. On a Monday our class go swimming so I eat a mars bar on the bus so I do not have a hypo in the pool. Plus my friends are very very genus.
A couple of months ago my mum was getting some books to go to my nanas house. She noticed I was very fidgety, sticky and hot. She knew that I was having some kind of fit. She quickly rang the ambulance. After a few minutes a ambulance man arrived in a car and tested my blood sugar. It was 6 but I was still having symptoms of a hypo. He quickly took me to hospital. They had to do my temperature. I did not know who my mum or dad were. Suddenly I knew who everyone was after a hour or 2. I needed to eat but I was sick all the time so the nurse put me on a drip. In the evening the nurse said I could go home. I was very pleased to be going home. The nurse said it was a hypo fit.
Its very hard to try and find the snacks that I will eat for school. It is always hard to find food for my pack lunch because they are all sugary things. My mum and I spend a lot of time reading the labels on packets at Tesco.
Last summer me and my family went to Florida and we had to carry all the needles and insulin in our hand luggage and we got a letter from the hospital. This was so we could let customs know that I had diabetes because you are not allowed sharp things on the plane. I like having diabetes as I do not mind having my hospital tests and especially when I have extra snacks in class, but I hope one day they will find a cure for diabetes.