I cannot wait for my 5th Diabirthday!!! It is an exciting moment in time for me. I get to celebrate it on August 27th, (as a partay of course!) and I remember the time that I got diagnosed in fragments. Please forgive me for my terrible storytelling.
Here it goes:
I had been feeling crummy for weeks, going to the bathroom constantly and drinking tons of water. I had never really like water, so my mom was a little weirded out when I kept asking her for more of it. She stopped giving it to me after about 5 glasses. I thought, if she doesn't give me water, I'll get it myself. I then ran to the downstairs bathroom, turned the cold water on as far as it would go and bent my head underneath the water stream, but I couldn't get it. (I wasn't thinking straight because I was high the entire time) Then I finally came up with a strategy that worked.
I scooped the water into my dry mouth. I was gulping it down, spilling everywhere in the process. Then, fast forward to August. I was going to a kids concert for my little sister. There were stands to buy Gatorade and other drinks because it was warm out. I convinced my parents to buy me a huge bottle of Gatorade, and I gulped it down. During the entire concert I drank 4 huge bottles of the stuff. Then fast forward to the next few days.I was in the doctor's office, and he had just taken a urine sample. He was telling us that it was the highest amount of sugar in a kids urine he had EVER seen. He told us to pack our bags and to go to Yale New Haven. I remember driving to the hospital eating Oreos on the way.. The worst snack ever! I didn't know back then, though. After 4 days in the hospital, I was finally released home, and in December of that year I got the Medtronic MiniMed insulin pump!
And that, my chicklings, is my story of diagnosis.
Here it goes:
I had been feeling crummy for weeks, going to the bathroom constantly and drinking tons of water. I had never really like water, so my mom was a little weirded out when I kept asking her for more of it. She stopped giving it to me after about 5 glasses. I thought, if she doesn't give me water, I'll get it myself. I then ran to the downstairs bathroom, turned the cold water on as far as it would go and bent my head underneath the water stream, but I couldn't get it. (I wasn't thinking straight because I was high the entire time) Then I finally came up with a strategy that worked.
I scooped the water into my dry mouth. I was gulping it down, spilling everywhere in the process. Then, fast forward to August. I was going to a kids concert for my little sister. There were stands to buy Gatorade and other drinks because it was warm out. I convinced my parents to buy me a huge bottle of Gatorade, and I gulped it down. During the entire concert I drank 4 huge bottles of the stuff. Then fast forward to the next few days.I was in the doctor's office, and he had just taken a urine sample. He was telling us that it was the highest amount of sugar in a kids urine he had EVER seen. He told us to pack our bags and to go to Yale New Haven. I remember driving to the hospital eating Oreos on the way.. The worst snack ever! I didn't know back then, though. After 4 days in the hospital, I was finally released home, and in December of that year I got the Medtronic MiniMed insulin pump!
And that, my chicklings, is my story of diagnosis.
