Elementary School can be a tough and weird time for any new Kindergarten student, due to the fresh new environment reminiscent to nothing you have every seen before, like full white classrooms filled to the brim with young, smelly, and weird kids you have never seen before, teachers who remind you of weird relatives or neighbors, and the new feeling of uneasiness that comes over your petite little body as you timidly sit down in a prison like asylum in which you are expected to learn day in and day out. Minus the occasional nap time, recess, and hanging out with all your new pals, school was just not as fun as being at home doing whatever you pleased. And do not get me wrong I personally loved school back then because it was a chance for me
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I remember after about the 10th time of me doing so, my mother had been outside talking with my dad and on speaker with someone she had called on the phone, they both had faces that I have never seen before, pale, surprised, and devastated all in one. I had asked them what was wrong with me and my mother immediately started bawling her eyes out. I had no idea what was going on and in the calmest tone that my father could possibly produce he said “Andrew, you’re diabetic”. I of course had no idea what that even meant. Very shortly after a man had shown up to our house, a man I had initially recognized, he was a doctor in town, a very good friend of my parents. He had come to sit me down and analyze the situation. It was a miracle I hadn’t blacked out from diabetic causes, I was still able to do everything normal and talk to him and my parents. I was shortly taken to the doctors office to further analyze the situation. I remember my mother trying to do so on the ride there but I gave her the stereotypical 6 year old response “What is that?” “Why?” and “What?”. I could tell she was getting …show more content…
Every person has character defining traits and qualities that make up and determine who they are as a person. For some it could be a tragic incident that happened to them when they were little, or a triumphant achievement in their lives, or any other possible circumstance that has had a huge impact on their lives in any way. The incident that has most impacted and or shaped my life is when I was diagnosed with type one diabetes. Because years of adjusting and coping caused me to mature and grow up a lot faster than other kids, when they all got snack time, I didn’t. I had to monitor and keep and eye on everything I put into my body, and then give myself injections of insulin if I chose to eat. Since those days I feel that this has caused me to really pay attention to the little things and to effectively handle huge amounts of responsibility, because 50 years ago before certain medical advancements diabetes was a death sentence. I soon learned that diabetes did not define me, but I got to dictate hat people knew me for and that diabetes was just something I carried with
I remember after about the 10th time of me doing so, my mother had been outside talking with my dad and on speaker with someone she had called on the phone, they both had faces that I have never seen before, pale, surprised, and devastated all in one. I had asked them what was wrong with me and my mother immediately started bawling her eyes out. I had no idea what was going on and in the calmest tone that my father could possibly produce he said “Andrew, you’re diabetic”. I of course had no idea what that even meant. Very shortly after a man had shown up to our house, a man I had initially recognized, he was a doctor in town, a very good friend of my parents. He had come to sit me down and analyze the situation. It was a miracle I hadn’t blacked out from diabetic causes, I was still able to do everything normal and talk to him and my parents. I was shortly taken to the doctors office to further analyze the situation. I remember my mother trying to do so on the ride there but I gave her the stereotypical 6 year old response “What is that?” “Why?” and “What?”. I could tell she was getting …show more content…
Every person has character defining traits and qualities that make up and determine who they are as a person. For some it could be a tragic incident that happened to them when they were little, or a triumphant achievement in their lives, or any other possible circumstance that has had a huge impact on their lives in any way. The incident that has most impacted and or shaped my life is when I was diagnosed with type one diabetes. Because years of adjusting and coping caused me to mature and grow up a lot faster than other kids, when they all got snack time, I didn’t. I had to monitor and keep and eye on everything I put into my body, and then give myself injections of insulin if I chose to eat. Since those days I feel that this has caused me to really pay attention to the little things and to effectively handle huge amounts of responsibility, because 50 years ago before certain medical advancements diabetes was a death sentence. I soon learned that diabetes did not define me, but I got to dictate hat people knew me for and that diabetes was just something I carried with