12/16/2025
Is your diagnosis story similar to ours? Please share below.
This week, we celebrate thirty years of life beyond diagnosis, the new technologies that have helped ease the burden of T1D, three beautiful grandchildren (in 1995 we were told may never have them) and the hope of living a long, full life despite Type 1!
Thirty years ago this week, our then 6 year old was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes—a disease that drastically changed our lives and has nearly taken her life too many times to count, in the days before the current technology was available.
For months when I presented her symptoms (bed wetting, extreme thirst) to our pediatrician, he rejected the notion saying she’d “be really sick if she had that.”
Guess what? It took her getting much sicker (and another doctor) to diagnose her. Though her symptoms had escalated, we thank God she was not in full blown DKA that day.
We learned we’d been too ignorant of the disease to know we could’ve simply pricked her finger and tested her blood sugar ourselves to help us advocate to the doctor. (This is not medical advice, btw.)
We started Test One Drop to educate medical personnel and familes of thr dangers of undiagnosed and untreated Type 1 diabetes.
Please share the signs and symptoms of T1D to help save others in honor of all our loved ones and their diagnoses.
www.testonedrop.org
