The Hospital part 1 - Genetic Dice
After the diagnosis ...
Happy New Year 2025 everyone!
This is the first of a five-part series about what it’s like to be in the hospital at sixteen years old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D), also known as insulin-dependent diabetes.
Genetic Dice
The hospital is to be avoided.
If you don't have to go there, I would recommend against going, unless you absolutely have to. In other words, there's a good reason, i.e. a life-threatening reason. At least that's my opinion.
What follows is my experience in the hospital at that time so long ago:
I wake up alone, drowsily clutching the pillow of the hospital bed and hoping it has all been a bad dream. I am the only teen on the pediatric ward …