Life with Type-1 Diabetes

I was twenty-seven years old when I was diagnosed with Type-1 Diabetes. You would think that my age would have made it a little less scary, but it didn’t. Fear I remember one night, after a few years of having diabetes, I had to call a friend to come over to put another needle in my stomach, because for whatever reason that night I couldn’t overcome the fear of doing it myself. A few years after that I sat in a small hospital office with my two diabetic nurses and for no real reason apart from the haunting weight of...