Hey when did this get here? Today is my 11th birthday and I would like to tell everyone how we got here.
At the end of the school year my doctor told me and my mom that I was diabetic. That's how we ended up talking to all of you guys. I used to have all of these really bad times when i would be happy one minute and then I would be really sad the next. It would happen alot all during the day. First my mom thought it might be ADHD because when it happened I couldn't consentrate or remember what she had told me a few minutes after she told me. Then when the end of school came my mom took me in to see the doctor. She was sad because I was gaining so much weight and I wasen't happy. He did a lot of test and my mom told the doctor all about my mood swings and my eating habits and my school work. Then I got a body exam. That was kind of embarrassing. He said that I had some thikening on the back of my neck and that the blood work would tell us what was wrong. Then we had to go back in a couple of days later because the doctor said he new what was wrong and he wanted to tell us. It was diabetis he said and if we did not do some big changes then I could die. My mom cryed and said that it was all her fault and that she should have noticed the signs sooner. But it wasen't her fault and I told her that. She said that the thought of not having me to hang out with any more hurt her heart and that she knew what people with broken hearts felt like. Then the doctor and my mom talked about ways to keep the diabetes from hurting me any more. The doctor said one way could be a low carb diet my mom said lets try that because it did not have anything to do with medicine. My mom did not want me to have to take medicine every day.
Everything now is great. My mom put me and my sister on the low carb diet and I started to feel better almost right away. Then I started to loose weight. That was cool too. Because kids at school always called me big tony but when school started this year they just called me Tony. Now we go to the kids hostpital. They have other kids like me there. We learn about eating right and taking care of ourselves. They show us what a good portions of food is and how to read labels. I don't have mood swings any more and my school work is so much easier now that I will never want to go back to the way we used to eat. Plus I now that I really can't unless I want to get sick agin.
You guy have helped us out a lot. When ever me or my sister want to know about other people who are on low carb diets like us we just get on and read the post. I think it makes it better to know that we are not the only ones out there.
Antonio James Young
Age 11 today
June-207 Today-165 now I'm not to big to play football (cool)
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