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...
