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Child's Biography: Alyssa is 5 Years old and was diagnosed with Type 1 last month. It was a very hard and difficult experience. We are learning each and every day. She is a very determined, brave and strong willed child; she is dealing with the situation very well and has even started giving herself her own shots. I am very grateful for the people we have been able to talk with that has an understanding of what we have and are going through. I believe people go through things for a reason although I don't understand why. I believe God is here and will help us and the children with what they have to face.
DeAnn, Paducah, KY, USA
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Stories of children living with type 1 diabetes
A poem by a caring and talented mother of a young child with diabetes
Paducah, Kentucky, USA
My Baby, why?
by DeAnn in Paducah, Kentucky, USA
I would like an explanation
Perhaps even a clue
Can
anyone please explain
The
pain my child goes through?
Each
night as she is tucked in bed I wonder how can this be?
My
daughter, my sunshine has been diagnosed with diabetes.
So
young, so happy and so full of
life
But
yet I know her heart is breaking having to deal with so much strife
Her
numbers go low, her numbers go high,
We do everything right, and still I ask "Why?"
At
night I'm alone, my thoughts are on her,
Still looking for an explanation that only seems to be a
blur
I
do all that I can to try and help her
understand why,
When I watch her poke her small body, I want to
cry.
I
know I have to stay strong and for her I will fight,
We'll tackle this battle with all our might.
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Alyssa not only does her own sugar checks she also started giving her own shots only a month after diagnosis!
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I
wont say it’s not a challenge, one to win at
all cost,
It’s a battle worth fighting, not one to be lost.
The stakes
are forever, it’s important you see,
it’s a battle’s worth fighting; it’s
worth it for she!
Although
my mind still ponders and often think of
days that use to be.
The
days where there were no pricks or shots and no worries of
diabetes.
I
wonder, has her life been predetermined, or someone’s path did she
cross
Has
it been another’s gain and now become her loss?
I
think towards the future, and how she will
be,
Will she be happy, will she marry, and will she have a baby?
I try not to worry; instead give her my
best,
I know when she grows up, she will handle the rest.
I do all that I can to relieve all her strife,
She's my baby, my sunshine; I would give her my life.
I lay and question have done everything I could try,
But always I wonder "My baby, why?"
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I catch her reading labels to find out the carbohydrates. I find it
heartbreaking that she has to do it but yet at the same time it give me a little
peace of mind because I know she is going to help take care of herself....
Read DeAnn's biography about her young daughter, Alyssa, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of five years old.
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