Shay

Diagnosed at age 10

Living with a Type 1 Diabetes monster is very difficult to deal with and needs lots of attention but I choose to fight everyday so that I don’t let it take over my life.  My monster it would be scary, unpredictable, heavy, doesn’t listen, painful, always in the background and hard to accept that it actually doesn’t go away.

Something people don’t know about a Type 1 Diabetes monster is that even with all the technology that we have today. It is still very difficult to manage.

We need to defeat the T1D monster because it’s been affecting far too many lives for far too long. It’s time to set us all free.

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