A 12 year old girl with Type I Diabetes shows you how she checks her blood sugar level and injects herself with insulin. She was diagnosed 6 weeks ago after losing weight rapidly and drinking water all the time.
Duration : 0:4:59
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Oops, Now I Dropped the Meter! - Type 1 Diabetes Injection
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Lilly’s Story on CNN - JDRF Diabetes - type 1
Friday, September 11th, 2009
On Monday, August 14, Lilly Jaffe, a six-year-old North Shore suburban girl who had been diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes when she was one month old, checked into the Clinical Research Center at the University of Chicago Medical Center. On Friday, August 18, she checked out, starting to make her own insulin, well on her way to insulin independence and ready to get in a few days of beach time in Michigan before starting first grade.
Duration : 0:3:42
