It was during summer vacations when I was 11, and had gone to Mussoorie with my family that these weird things started to happen.
Now, I was of the built that prompted names like "baby elephant", "dinosaur" et al. So when I started losing a lot of weight rather quickly, my mother was worried. And I was thinking the woman's losing it. I mean this should be a cause for celebration, right?
Moreover, I felt like my throat had suddenly transformed into a desert or something because I couldn't seem to drink enough water. And cold- REALLY COLD water. Of course, when you drink all that water you are bound to pee as much and I swear there was a time when all I did was drink water and pee (not necessarily in that order). I would also feel sluggish and cranky.
Even though mom did not then know that something called "Juvenile Diabetes" existed, some weird, motherly instinct made her take me to a pathologist to get my blood sugar checked...
4 comments:
Yes Shetu, now I realize how lucky we were in our guesswork. How could I understand those symptoms when I didn't know that diabetes can happen to children also. I used to scold u a lot that why don't you play, that's why you are gaining weight.
Yes, you used to go to toilet very frequently and again I didn't know anything.I remember once I told you to go to the toilet before leaving for the market and as we reached the market you said-mamma,toilet jana hai. Now I feel guilty that I got irritated and scolded you. That is why I now want that every person diabetic or non diabetic should at least have the knowledge of symptoms so that delay in detection can be avoided.
May 10, 2008 11:19 PM
Tough times do not last, but tough people do
thx for making me the post..need to know a lot about the common symptoms may be it might help..
Hey Jo,
Thanks for reading through the blog. It has been ages since I updated it, somewhere along the way, I got tired of the Internet! Hehe... Hopefully, your encouraging comments would induce me to write more often.
Cheers!
:)
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