There were many ideas for stories that popped into my head, which I felt needed to be addressed. Personal experiences became utmost important for me to share to help bring awareness to a cause and also allow people to have a voice. I wanted to tell a story not to make people sad, but to show how one moment can change a family’s life forever. I want to show how one day you can be living an ordinary life, and the next day that same life is turned upside down in an instant. I also wanted to tell this story to bring awareness to a disease that most people do not know can affect young children. Since few people are aware of the impact being diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes has on a child as well as their family, I choose this topic for my film
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A disease like type 1 diabetes is a major struggle for anyone, especially a five year old little girl. The film will show the struggle of adjusting from an ordinary life to an abnormal life in an instant. The family shows their struggles every day to keep her healthy by testing her blood sugar up to 10 times a day, having five or more insulin shots every day, and having an A1C lab test done regularly, to ensure her blood sugars are in balance. Although the hardest struggle was realizing that she would never be a normal kid again. When kids were getting to play on the playground right after lunch, she would have to go to the nurse’s office to get the insulin to correct her blood sugar. In addition, it was a struggle and an adjustment for her family to learn how to properly take care of a little girl with Type 1 Diabetes. Her parents had to learn to count carbohydrates for everything she ate or drank. They realized that she had to eat at a certain time every day and could never eat or drink anything without counting carbs again. In addition, it was a struggle for the family to help her overcome the fear of needles and multiple injections. Furthermore, her mother struggled with the school nurses to help properly take care of her while she was in school and she eventually had to quit her job to ensure her daughter had the proper care. Overall, the theme of the film shows the struggle the child and her family endured knowing she will live with this disease for the rest of her
A disease like type 1 diabetes is a major struggle for anyone, especially a five year old little girl. The film will show the struggle of adjusting from an ordinary life to an abnormal life in an instant. The family shows their struggles every day to keep her healthy by testing her blood sugar up to 10 times a day, having five or more insulin shots every day, and having an A1C lab test done regularly, to ensure her blood sugars are in balance. Although the hardest struggle was realizing that she would never be a normal kid again. When kids were getting to play on the playground right after lunch, she would have to go to the nurse’s office to get the insulin to correct her blood sugar. In addition, it was a struggle and an adjustment for her family to learn how to properly take care of a little girl with Type 1 Diabetes. Her parents had to learn to count carbohydrates for everything she ate or drank. They realized that she had to eat at a certain time every day and could never eat or drink anything without counting carbs again. In addition, it was a struggle for the family to help her overcome the fear of needles and multiple injections. Furthermore, her mother struggled with the school nurses to help properly take care of her while she was in school and she eventually had to quit her job to ensure her daughter had the proper care. Overall, the theme of the film shows the struggle the child and her family endured knowing she will live with this disease for the rest of her