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Michael’s Story: Life with Type 1 Diabetes
One day, I couldn’t stop throwing up. My stomach hurt
badly, so I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance.
Doctors tried to get my body back to normal. Nurses came
the act of putting medicine into the body with a needle
n.
shots
to take blood and give me shots. I screamed every time
they came in. (Remember that I was only five.)
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When did Michael learn that he had diabetes?
He learned that he had diabetes when he was five.
Unit 7 | Michael’s Story: Life with Type 1 Diabetes