Sarah�s 'D' Story
written by Sarah
Well when I was in 6th grade (11years old) I was always using the bathroom.....I mean always. I even got in trouble in school sometimes because I had to go 2 times in one period. I had no idea why I always had to go, and I was constantly thirsty I started bringing 3 water bottles to school. Well I had a doctor�s appt. November 11th...just a check up. Right when I got there the doctor said he was worried because I had lost 10 pounds since the last visit, which was 2 months ago, because I wasn't feeling good. My mom told him I was going to the bathroom a lot, he said they would test me to see if I had diabetes but he was almost positive I didn't. So they tested me. After the nurse tested me she said she wanted us to stay because the doctor was going to want to talk to my mother. But my mom didn't think anything of it. And my brother and his 3 friends were waiting in the car to go to the movies So my mom said well we will be home in 30 min. Have the doctor call then. So when we got home we were all sitting there just doing normal things, when the doctor called. My mom started crying and told me and my 2 sisters to go in the other room. We had no idea who was on the phone with my mom. when she got off she came in the living room crying and said,"Sarah that was the doctor". You have sugar diabetes" I was so scared I had no clue what that was. So we waited another 5 min for my dad to come home because my mom didn't know how to get to the hospital. My dad got home and we were off to the hospital. When we first got there we went to the register place and they said my name wasn't on the list. So they checked around the whole hospital and found my name on the ER list. So I was sent there. When I got there I was put in the front of the line. It had been about 2 hours since I was at the doctors and had lost 5 pounds. They were very worried. When I finally got in the room thing I was supposed to be in. I had to lay on the table. After about 15 min. I started going in to a coma......my sugar was so high (998). They put the IV in my arm and stuck that smelly stuff under my nose. After a while I came around it was about 9:30pm then. At about 11pm I was sent up to my room where I was going to stay for a while. I was there for 3 days. When I was there I learned lots of things on how to take care of myself. The 2nd day I was giving myself my own shots. When I went home it was a Friday. The next Monday I went back to school. It was hard at first but it got a little easier. The next week I got strept throat It messed up all my bloodsugars and stuff. I am doing very good now, I am 13 years old and I have my sugars under control!
~*~Sarah~*~