Personal Narrative Essay On Diabetes

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Personal Narrative Essay The challenges I have overcome in my lifetime so far is being diagnosed with diabetes at age 8. I have had overcome many challenges in my life but this is the biggest one that I have overcome. On a hot summer day in 2008, I was playing in the hose outside with my brother and neighbors. We were outside for a couple hours having a blast. Then about 3:00 in the afternoon I went inside to change and after that I came back out and I was freezing like it was the middle of winter. I was sick for about a week in a half. I was so dehydrated that I drank everything in the house like tea, juice, water, milk, pop and whatever else we had to drink. I layer around the house for a week looking like a ghost because I was so pale. I didn't eat very much because my stomach was upset and I was full of liquid. A week later after being sick I finally went to the E.R at Akron children's hospital in Boardman to see what was wrong. …show more content…

I told them what was wrong and why I didn't feel good. I was in the E.R for about two hours or so when the doctor came in and said that I have signs of being a diabetic. They used this meter thing to check ck what my blood sugar was. The meter said that my sugar was over 600. They put me in an ambulance and transferred me to the main hospital in Akron. The diabetes doctor came in and explained what I might have and what I need to do because there is no cure and I'll have it for the rest if my

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