In 1982, I got my first insulin pump to control Type I Diabetes. Since being diagnosed at five, I gave shots on my own, and never considered the injections painful. They just...were. But at the age of nine, modern technology changed my life with the insulin pump.
It’s midnight, and I am crouching in the dark watching a dim screen flashing, flashing, flashing…67. I have to wake her up. Thank God I caught it. Thank God I was awake.