Day 16 – Meet Marisa

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Hi.  My name is Marisa.  I’m 16 years old and was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes when I was 11 months old.  For me this means that as a very young child I wasn’t able to eat whenever all the other kids would.  Since I was diagnosed with diabetes, I have had to stick my fingers over 43,800 times to do blood glucose tests and give myself over 10,000 insulin injections.  In the first grade, I was put on the pump.  Did this make things easier, in some ways yes.  But for over 365 days a year and 24 hours a day, I have been attached to this pump.  Technology has definitely made managing my diabetes easier in the last 15 years, but Breakthrough T1D gives me hope that one day I will be diabetes free.  Free from needles, meters, pumps……… just free.

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