Having a dad with diabetes has shaped my life a lot , and knowing that anything can happen any day scares me. It’s hard to understand sometimes why harsh diseases like diabetes are put into the lives of loved ones. Growing up, I didn’t understand why my dad had to prick his fingers and inject himself until I got older I understood that he had diabetes type 1. That changed my perspective of things , because there hasn't been a cure found for diabetes and the fact that i runs through the family scares me and my sister.
The plans that i hope to accomplish are to become a doctor and help families who have the risks of having diabetes and help prevent those high stakes. Having experienced that as a young girl I know how it’s like to see firefighters come to my house and take my dad into an ambulance , and to be poked on the hand with an I-V, that to a seven year old is scary to not know if her dad is gonna be ok, or even the fact that she might not be able to see him again. One little bubble in his insulin pump , and stop his heart . Last year we took a really bad scare , my dad’s blood sugar went down , and he was on his way to drop things off on Victoria avenue. He ended up in the city of Oxnard. Crashed the car on a fence not hurting anyone , and ending up in the hospital. Maybe this diseases will be able to have a cure soon, because it hurts to see my dad having to poke himself and having diabetes since he was a teen. The struggles that we have gone through together as a family will always carry on with what career I want to do as part of being a doctor/ pediatrician and help find a cure to help others that have the same diseases like my dad and help prevent them.
This disease has shaped my life, and my future , to what I want to become in life ,and to know that my future job will help find a cure for diseases , and know that my “dreams” to become a doctor will come true , and make my parents proud , and happy just waiting on what my future hold for me , my twin , and lastly my hard working parents!
The plans that i hope to accomplish are to become a doctor and help families who have the risks of having diabetes and help prevent those high stakes. Having experienced that as a young girl I know how it’s like to see firefighters come to my house and take my dad into an ambulance , and to be poked on the hand with an I-V, that to a seven year old is scary to not know if her dad is gonna be ok, or even the fact that she might not be able to see him again. One little bubble in his insulin pump , and stop his heart . Last year we took a really bad scare , my dad’s blood sugar went down , and he was on his way to drop things off on Victoria avenue. He ended up in the city of Oxnard. Crashed the car on a fence not hurting anyone , and ending up in the hospital. Maybe this diseases will be able to have a cure soon, because it hurts to see my dad having to poke himself and having diabetes since he was a teen. The struggles that we have gone through together as a family will always carry on with what career I want to do as part of being a doctor/ pediatrician and help find a cure to help others that have the same diseases like my dad and help prevent them.
This disease has shaped my life, and my future , to what I want to become in life ,and to know that my future job will help find a cure for diseases , and know that my “dreams” to become a doctor will come true , and make my parents proud , and happy just waiting on what my future hold for me , my twin , and lastly my hard working parents!