Benny Davis

When I was two years old, I was suffering from random moments of passing out and sometimes even seizures. My took me to a local doctor and they said that I had leukemia. My mother thought that there was something else besides the childhood cancer. She took me to another hospital and they found that I had type 1 diabetes. Stunned and shaken by this, my grandmother stepped in. She suffered from the disease and helped my mother to cope with the disease and to teach my mother and me to take blood tests and insulin injections. I was giving myself shots at two years of age.

Now I’m 43 years of age. with only one complication — the loss of my right eye. And having the help of a CGM and insulin pump, I’m able to wake each morning, look the day in the face, and keep the disease at bay. To this day though, I have my struggles as every one else does . And I allow myself to have the time to over come my darkness with dealing with this disease. I will not let it consume me. I won’t let it win.