Sain's Story in Sain's words
When I was 5 I went to Children’s Hospital for the
first time and found out I have type 1 diabetes. Now I have to have 4 shots a
day and poke my fingers 10 times a day just to make sure I am okay. I can do my
pokes and shots on my own now but I don’t want to. I want to be normal and
diabetes makes me feel like I’m different. My mom tells me being different is
okay but I want to decide how I am different. I didn’t choose to be diabetic.
People think you have to be fat or old or eat a lot of sugar and bad food to
get diabetes but I was just 5 and we eat lots of organic foods and do yoga and
pilates and I still got diabetes.
Please help us find a cure because there is a lot I want to do in my life so I
have to live a long time.
