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One of my friends is diabetic. She has what they call Juvenile Diabetes. She is also insulin dependant. She was diagnosed with diabetes when she was six going on seven. She was diagnosed in the January and her seventh birthday was in the February. She has been diabetic for nine yeas now, and copes with it very well in my opinion. She accepts it as part of her life and that it could be worse, that she could have been diagnosed with another more critical disease. How does it affect her life? Well she has to test her sugar three times a day, in the morning before she eats, at dinner before she eats and before she goes to bed. She tests her sugar by pricking her finger and putting the blood on a strip. The machine is a special one used for diabetics. It takes about five seconds to count down unlike the other ones which take approximately anywhere from fifteen seconds to one minute. When she gets sick she has to test every two hours, and she also has to test her ketones but another machine. “Ketones” is a term they use but actually it is a condition called ketone-acidosis. When she has ketones it produces the same symptoms as the flu usually (eg. Vomiting, head aches, fever, abdominal pains.
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