Staying positive

Meg

Hi, I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in March 2007. It all happened really quick - the night before I went into hospital I was out running, training for the race for life! I came home from school and just fell asleep on the sofa, my mum also caught me drinking out the six pinter of milk! She took me to the doctors, and that was when I had the horrible news.

I can remember breaking down into tears, saying "I'm never going to inject myself", but now I realise that's the easy bit! The hardest bit is controlling it. I was in hospital for only a few days, but I was lucky, I always had visitors and my mum stayed with me. The whole of my family were so supportive and they still are! The first question I asked myself was "Why me?", which I think everyone else diagnosed with diabetes would also think.

I would fear the nurses bringing me the injection, but then I realised, the only way I was going to get out of the hospital was actually by doing my own injections. So that's what I did.

This was when I thought I was not going to be able to do the race for life (which I had been training ages for) because it was only a few weeks away. But i was determined, and I did manage to complete the run!

I don't let my diabetes control me

I'm now 14 and in year 9. I don't let my diabetes get in the way, and I control it, I don't let it control me. It gets me down sometimes, but I just find all the positive things about it! Sometimes I do think, I wish it wasn't me, especially when all my friends get to eat chocolate and I can only have it at the right times. I'm quite lucky at school because there are four diabetics in my year and altogether, at my school, there are eight diabetics!

I'm just a normal teenager, the same as any of my friends; I don't let my diabetes stop me doing anything. There are a few ignorant people out there, but hey, what do they know.

I just get on with life!

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