Sophia Taylor

It was a few months of me feeling sick tired losing weight using the bathroom often and changes in my vision. Was a normal 17-year-old girl getting recruited to play college softball and I just knew something wasn’t right.

It was going into my senior year of high school and I wet the bed. I knew something wasn’t right and so my mom made an appointment to see my doctor. I got my blood drawn and went on with my normal life. My doctor called my mom the next day and said to take me to the nearest hospital right now. That was the day my life changed forever. I went from being a healthy girl excited to play college softball to a girl who could barely see the ball because of how much my vision had changed. I’ll never forget how sick I felt in the hospital bed with a large ketones with a blood sugar over 1400 mg/dl. Diabetes definitely has its challenges and I had tears in my eyes when I recognize that this was year 10. Even through all my challenges I still continued on to play two years of college softball and got a bachelors degree in elementary education and a masters degree in administration. I bring awareness to diabetes every single year in my classroom in my school and in my community. I bring awareness to the high costs of medications and supplies and hope one day to write a children’s book about diabetes. No day is the same but I feel grateful for this beautiful life I live.