my junior yr. old high school I was missing a lot of days because I was catching bronchitis every month. so I put onto academic probation during that summer I baby sated my two neighbors child. I never notice how much water I was drinking but I did notice I was loosing weight. I loved that after 5 yrs. of being over 200 I was finally losing weight even though I ate usual stuff. aka lots of snacks. then my senior yr. started and every was amazed about my weight lose they could believe how much I lost. my teachers thought I was purging which is totally gross. so one day when I came home from school my dad ask me about purging and he already knew I didn't do it but he got the call from my school nurse. at that time I was weighing 121 lbs. that's was almost a 90 lbs. difference. my mom just had surgery on her right arm and that day I was home sick with laryngitis so during that whole weekend I was sick and on Monday I was still sick so missed another day of school. that Tuesday I woke up feeling really weak and my head was just pounding and pounding so my mom asked me if I wanted to go to hospital and I told her no its just a head ache which I never had one that bad. then my dad came home and he saw me on the couch panting like labor breathing and he told my mom to grab me and he went flying down the road breaking any traffic law. when I got to kch aka Kosciusko county community hospital they thought at first I was having a panic attack but then my mom described how I was drinking water and losing weight. so then they did a sugar test and from that day Oct 15 2008 I was type 1 diabetic. I'm now on a pump and my A1c is doing amazing 6.9 I would never change my life if I could get that chance.

jennifer quillen
leesburg, IN