A gift I'd like to give

When Madyson was seven years old she was diagnosed with Juvenile Diabetes. That was eight years ago and she still is fighting this disease everyday of her life since. If there was any kind of gift that I would give someone it would be to give Madyson the gift of better health so that she didn’t have to deal with this anymore. Madyson is my sister and I have seen personally how hard it has been for her to have to experience this disease in her life.

Madyson came home after a regular check up at the doctor’s office to tell us that she would have to be spending a few days at Primary Children’s Hospital to learn how to take care of her new diagnosed disease. She was very nervous and so was the rest of our family. How would this change affect our family?

She stayed at the hospital and me and my other siblings stayed at my grandmas not knowing what was going on and really not knowing much about what diabetes was and how my sister would have to deal with it. While she was at the hospital she learned how to prick her finger and test her blood sugar levels, she learned how to give and receive a shot, and she learned how to eat so that she could control her body more.

In the eight years that my sister has gone through this we have learned a lot about diabetes and we have learned a lot about the effects it has on people and how many people have this common disease. My family has been affected a lot also but I think that it has been for better. Ever since my sister was diagnosed my family has done all that we can do to volunteer and to help out the American Diabetes Association as much as we can.

We helped at a clubhouse that happens every year for children who have just been diagnosed from ages 3-9 and it gives them a chance to come and meet other kids who share the same unique thing and it also teaches them how to take care of their body. We also help at a diabetes run which is a fundraiser to earn money to give to researchers to help find a cure.

I think that Mady would be very deserving of this gift and I hope that one day there will be a way for her to get rid of what she has to do every day of her life. It is something that she and many others would deserve.