Dear 16 year old me,
One day everything will change for you. You may not feel it
now, or for a very long time in fact, but one day everything will start to get
better. I promise you that.
You’ve just been diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. You’re
scared, angry, confused and currently you’re very much in denial about your
condition. You’re hiding away from it as much as you possibly can and at the
same time you’re trying to fight it, to protect yourself and your family from
the way it makes you feel. It’s exhausting, isn’t it? Each day is an ever
weakening battle to muster up the energy to move, to think, even to smile, but
you but you carry on regardless because you don’t know what else you should do. You don’t
really understand what it entails, what this diagnosis will bring, and what you
do know of it has frightened you enough to make you want to run as far as you
possibly can and hide from it... (cont)