Personal Narrative: My Cousin With Type 2 Diabetes

When I was five years old, I was diagnosed with type one diabetes. It was 11 years ago on New Year’s Eve, and I was celebrating the holiday by consuming an immense amount of sugar. My mother, who already had two other young children with diabetes, immediately recognized that I was suffering from the symptoms of hyperglycemia. After I was diagnosed, I was given a book and a bear. The book was about how the other kids would react to my diagnosis, and the bear was covered in colourful patches that corresponded to the areas on my own body that I could give my insulin injections.

My cousins are not the only ones in my family that have type 2 diabetes. I have a closed family member with the disease this is my mother. Since I was a child my mother used to tell me her own stories about her bad eating habits and how she did not pay attention to my grandmother advices. I was growing up with that in my mind, she used to drink soda instead of water during the day. She used eat a lot pastries, bread, pasta all kind of food with high content of carbohydrates. She was overweight; her was around two hundred pounds. It was ironic because she did not have diabetes until she got

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When I was five, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Even though this was a truly terrible event in my life, there were people who were extremely helpful to me. Obviously, my parents, other family, and friends helped me through the situation, but I am eternally grateful to the nurses. They made me feel like everything was going to be ok as it was happening in the moment. They were the reason I made it through the ordeal. Since then, I could always picture myself going into nursing so that one day, I can be that same trusted support system for someone else.

My life wouldn’t be considered normal. My parents were immigrants from Pakistan trying to create a better life for them and their children, and they’re the only ones from their families to move to America. They moved from New York, to Richardson, and lastly to Rockwall, Texas in 2005. I was born in 2000 but when events in my life truly started shaping me was in the summer of 2004.

On July 14th 2010, when I was twelve years old, I was rushed to the hospital because my blood sugar levels were 407. Before my mom had observed that I was rapidly losing weight, drinking a great amount of water, and was continuously tired. My mom was worried that I had type one diabetes because others in my family has diabetes.

Diabetes is a disease that runs on both sides of the family. On my father’s side, I have an aunt and grandma whom have recently been diagnosed with diabetes. On my mother’s side, my grandpa along with many of his siblings has had diabetes as long as I can remember. I also have a few uncles with prediabetes. Prediabetes is when a person has a higher blood sugar level than normal but isn’t quite high enough for the person to be considered diabetic. Each one of my family members that have diabetes has been diagnosed as Type 2. Type 2 diabetes does run in families, it has to do with genetics as well as children following in the footsteps of their parents. Adults with children are constantly setting bad habits and may not even realize it. Eating healthy and getting exercise is a habit that everyone needs to learn. According to the American Diabetes Association, if you have type 2 diabetes, the risk of your child getting diabetes is 1 in 7 if you were diagnosed before age 50 and 1 in 13 if you were diagnosed after age 50. A child 's risk is also increased when the parent with type 2 diabetes is the mother, and if both parents have type 2 diabetes, the child 's risk is about 1 in 2. Although neither of my parents currently have diabetes, the disease could still be passed on as the years pass by, my younger brother and I could still be at risk for developing diabetes, which is why I am taking every precaution I can at the young age of nineteen.

There are many individuals who are diagnosed with type two diabetes who do not truly know what it is, or chooses not to take it seriously. My grandmother is someone who has suffered with this for over twenty years, and still fails to realize how important it is to maintain good habits to stay healthy and alive. The cause of this disease is from being obese, and for my Nanny that was a hard thing to accept. Although she was married and seemed to be happy to others, that was far from the truth. She suffered from many years due to an emotionally abusive relationship. When she was diagnosed with diabetes the struggles and abuse seemed to grow worse. She found out that my grandfather had been cheating on her with various women and divorced him immediately. A few years after she was diagnosed with diabetes, she allowed her blood sugar to get dangerously high and ended up in the hospital. Since then she has been obsessive with keeping it low, and sometimes too low. She also became obsessive with losing extra weight she had, but did not handle it in the proper way. Instead of problems with high blood sugar she now has problems with low blood sugar, and we have almost lost her several times. This is an example of someone who is not properly educated on the many factors that come along with type two diabetes and how to cope with it appropriately. It is our job to inform those who suffer from this life changing disease on proper ways to deal with type two diabetes before

During Christmas vacation, three weeks before my 4th birthday, I began eating more; more than I had and more than I should. I was always hungry, extremely hungry. Hungry, thirsty and tired, painfully dragging myself to and from day to day activities. I gorged myself with food, yet my pants became looser, arms thinner and stomach flatter. The world swirled around me; I couldn’t stand without stumbling. On December 23, 2001, I entered the hospital kicking and screaming, tired and alone. Since that day, I haven’t seen food the same way.

Did you know that an estimated 11.2 million Americans age 65 or older are living with diabetes? That’s 1-in-4 adults over the age of 60 that will be diagnosed with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. Those who have already been diagnose with the disease have already learned how to many their condition over time. Even after to adjusting your lifestyle over time due to the disease, the initial diagnosis can be overwhelming. As loved ones and caregivers, you want to provide them with the support and help they need to continue to enjoy a healthy, happy life. The Woodlands Family Care Centers has a few helpful tips that can you avoid or delay complications that are found to be associated with diabetes.

This is it. Today will be the day to end the mystery of all the fainting I have been doing lately. I had my blood tested a couple of weeks ago, because my mom thinks I am diabetic. I don't think I am, but it's always better to be safe then sorry. I can't keep still, I really want to know what has been causing me to faint.

I do not like the vision of myself having diabetes and obesity. I like the most appealing element of life: food. At the same time, I might or might not I like my lack of self control, the weakness that allows me to occasionally have quality yet fatty desserts. As if to make the matter more troublesome, on a beautiful Saturday afternoon, my roommate made me a tray of tiramisu, and my slender diet discipline was gone with the wind. I tried my best not to devour the whole tray at once, but instead sneaking a little bit here and there regularly throughout a couple of days.

At the start of my freshman year of highschool, I reluctantly enrolled in a weight training class. Coming into the school year, I was on the verge of being morbidly obese and at risk for my family’s history of diabetes and hypertension. It was scary at first; I was always afraid of people judging the way I looked or the amount of weight I could lift on the bar. After several months of beginner lifting, I took a big step forward and bought a gym membership to lift weights outside of school. I started out going once a week, then twice, then three times, and eventually as much as I could.

My score is 239, which means I am at a moderate life crisis. According to Holmes-Rahe scale, I have a 50% chance of illness such as a headache, diabetes, fatigue, hypertension, chest, back pain, ulcer and infectious disease. I happen to have frequent headaches that appear to be stress headaches, and I was diagnosed with diabetes six months ago. Currently, having increased fatigue, maybe due to the lack of sleep. Additionally, started taking omeprazole six months ago due to a right mid-abdominal pain that my doctor believe could be an ulcer. I made changes in my eating habits and lifestyle when diagnosed with diabetes; however, I have long ways to achieving wellness.

Diabetes is a lifelong condition that causes a person’s blood sugar to become too high or too low as the pancreas no longer produces the right amount, or any, insulin (NHS Choices, 2014). Insulin is a hormone which is released from the pancreas, working by moving sugar from the blood into other body tissues enabling the liver to stop producing excessive glucose. There are two main types of diabetes, type1 and type 2. Once known as childhood diabetes or insulin dependent diabetes, type 1 is much rarer than type 2 diabetes which occurs when the body becomes resistant to the effects of insulin (Mayo Clinic, 2016; MedlinePlus, 2016). Symptoms of diabetes include excessive thirst, frequent urination, tiredness, long healing wounds and unexplained weight loss which occurs due to glucose staying in the blood (Diabetes UK, 2016). If a patient develops diabetes and diet change or medications are unable to control