February has never been my favorite month. In my family, the month of February doesn’t involve love and romance but involves mostly tragedy and despair. Relatives have died, injuries have occurred, illnesses have been contracted, so far I don’t believe a positive event has occurred during February. Usually when the month rolls around I hold my breath and hope that nothing bad happens. In February of 1994, an event occurred that made me and my whole family transform into a completely different set of people. Three months prior, I was a seven year old second grader, who was about four feet, eight inches tall, and about 64pounds. By February I was a seven year old second grader, who was the same he

Life is unfair, things happen for unexplainable reasons, and sometimes you just have to smile and nod, go with the flow and deal with it. Most people don’t learn this lesson till they are much older, but since I was blessed with this experience, I was able to mature. This might seem like a worst case scenario learning experience but since my diagnosis, I am able to stay and in touch with reality, and realize that sometimes things happen and that are not fair. I know a lot of people who believe that they live in dream worlds and don’t understand that things happen that they cannot control. Experiences are meaningful when they evoke change and when you can look back and realize that you learned and became a better person because of the change.

On the first day of February, 1994, my pediatrician called around noon with the test results and a diagnosis of my illness. Just as the phone rang I had finished off a six pack of Capris Sun that my mom had bought me about an hour before. I was lieing on the couch, glazed over and unaware of what was going on. The doctor told my mom that I had juvenile diabetes and that it was necessary to rush me to the hospital immediately. My dad

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