Kacee

From his mom, Gen:

On July 16, 2014 my five year old son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. He has a bad stomach bug a few months before and soon we started noticing him drinking lots of liquids, losing weight and looked very skinny seeing his ribs and was have bed wetting accidents when he had been potty trained and had no accidents in over a year. That’s when my sister-in-law recognized the symptoms and suggested we purchase a glucometer to see what his blood glucose was. Nobody in the family had diabetes and so we were unfamiliar how to use it but it registered a reading of HIGH. We took him to the ER as our best friend who’s a pediatric nurse prepared us for the Type 1 Diabetes diagnosis. When they admitted him to the hospital his glucose registered greater than 1,000 and his A1C was 15. As a family we soon learned how to care for him and our new way of life. The first few years he struggled with his new normal and would cry asking why him. He is now 16 years old and thriving in high school soccer, has a 4.0 GPA and takes care of his diabetes on his own with no real difference in his daily routine. The last three years of his life have been very traumatic and hard for him with mother’s stage 3 breast cancer diagnosis, his father passing away from Covid, and his grandfather a few weeks after that to a heart attack. Despite all that trauma and still caring for his autoimmune disease he continues to push threw it. We couldn’t be more proud of of the young man he is and thriving with type 1 diabetes.