Personal Narrative: My Experience With Diabetes

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It was in the middle of September of the year 2008 when I was diagnosed with diabetes. I had just woken up in the middle of the night to use the restroom when my mom told me to come in her room. She new something wasn't right, I had a lymph node under my arm and I got up several times in the night to use the restroom. My mom had told me that she was taking me to the doctor to get me checked out.
When I got to the emergency room it smelt like hospital and I hate that smell but I think everyone does. We were taken back to a room and the doctors made me lay down and they pretty much gave me a physical, but they couldn't find anything wrong. Then they told me I had to pee in a cup so I did. We waited in the hospital room for about 20 minutes then

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