Hey, I'm Sabrina and I am currently 12 going on 13. I live in Australia. Anyway, when I first got diabetes I was in America, more detailed, New York. My family and I were traveling around USA!

My parents kept saying they were going to get me checked by the doctor, my mum had had gestational diabetes with both my sister and I, and they were noticing that I was drinking tons of water and going to the toilet every 5 minutes(it felt like) or so.

So in NY one night, the second night I was there, I had terrible stomach cramps. In the morning my mum took me to the pharmacy but they had no idea what was wrong with me, so we went to the doctors and they told us they could only take kids 16 and over. So we went to the hospital and I was lying on the bed with a drip for hours and hours. When they told me it was true I had diabetes, everyone was devastated. They kind of expected it but it was still a very traumatic day. At the time my mum was with me and when she called my dad and my sister they came straight away.

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