A month ago, my niece visited and I noticed that she had a huge appetite. I didn't think much of it at the time. I just thought she was going through a growing spell. However, she visited again yesterday and her eating habits were very enormous. After 2 cans of icing, 3 toasted cheese sandwiches, pretzels, a bag of cereal, a gallon of Kool-Aid (all of which she had started eating after she had just had a huge breakfast ), she fell asleep. She is very skinny. My husband has diabetes, so we thought she ought to be checked. Her blood sugar was 511 mg/dl [28.4 mmol/l] at 8 pm. By 8:30 pm, it was 410 mg/dl [22.7 mmol/l]. We took her to the emergency room and her blood sugar there was 121 mg/dl [6.7 mmol/l]. They did some lab work and it was 99 mg/dl [5.5 mmol/l]. At the hospital, they told her that she did not have diabetes and to watch what she eats. They never ran an Hba1c test. Today all she ate was a bowl of cereal this morning, 2 hot dogs for lunch and a hamburger for dinner and her blood sugar was 122 mg/dl [6.8 mmol/l]. Can a normal person have such high blood sugars or is she going through the honeymoon stage of diabetes?

Justin Delgado is husband to Kacie Doyle-Delgado, diagnosed at age 11. After more than a decade together, he considers himself to be an expert carb counter and Dexcom inserter. He graduated with his Master of Science in Finance from the University of Utah in 2013 and has been working in commercial banking since then. He attended his first Friends for Life conference in 2015 and is looking forward to volunteering with the teens.

Kacie Doyle-Delgado, MSN, APRN, NP-C, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 11 and attended her first Friends for Life conference in 2002. Since then, she has attended several FFL and regional conferences. She earned her BSN and her MSN as a Family Nurse Practitioner at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT and she is currently enrolled in a DNP program. She works for Utah Physicians Care Center in a diabetes specialty clinic. Kacie lives in Salt Lake with her husband, Justin Delgado, and their dogs. She is looking forward to volunteering with the teens again.

Marissa Town, BSN, RN, CDE, graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and later earned her Certified Diabetes Educator credential. She has had type 1 diabetes since the age of two and has grown up with a passion for helping families living with diabetes. Marissa is currently working as a research nurse at Stanford University. She has always enjoyed working with families with diabetes at Children with Diabetes conferences, camps, and support groups. She and her husband Adam have two young children, Connor and Everly.