{"id":7308,"date":"2024-04-05T18:20:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T18:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jdrf.org\/westcentralpa\/?p=6217"},"modified":"2025-10-24T16:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T16:28:23","slug":"all-of-us-kates-ryans-diagnoses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/westernpawestva\/2024\/04\/05\/all-of-us-kates-ryans-diagnoses\/","title":{"rendered":"ALL OF US: Kate\u2019s & Ryan\u2019s Diagnoses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Editor\u2019s note: This is the second post in the series, \u201cALL OF US<\/strong>,\u201d by Chelsea Lugone and family, who will share their T1D journey onstage at the <\/em>2024 Breakthrough T1D Central PA Gala<\/em><\/strong><\/a> on May 18th<\/sup>. Whether or not you are able to join them at the event, you can still support their efforts with a <\/em>100% tax-deductible Fund A Cure gift<\/em><\/a> today to accelerate life-changing breakthroughs in T1D research.<\/em><\/p>\n

Previous post<\/em><\/strong> |\u00a0 ALL OF US: Chelsea\u2019s Diagnosis<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Kate\u2019s & Ryan\u2019s Diagnoses<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Despite being told by a healthcare professional that my child had a 1% chance of having type 1 diabetes (T1D), here I was, facing one of my worst fears: Kate having a blood sugar of 459. \u00a0I can replay the moments, just as if they were yesterday. \u00a0After a major tantrum and screaming, \u201cI\u2019m thirsty,” I knew it as soon as she said it, but it was the glucometer reading that sealed her fate. \u00a0Life forever changed for my girl that day!<\/p>\n

After experiencing the life-changing and world-rocking diagnosis of one of my children, we decided to screen Ryan for T1D-related autoantibodies. \u00a0At age 3, we learned Ryan had 3 of the 5 autoantibodies and his fate would be the same as Kate\u2019s. \u00a0Another heartache but in a very different way. \u00a0I was grateful Ryan was screened because we felt more prepared. \u00a0And fortunately, he was caught so early that we were able to initiate insulin dosing early and avoided life-threatening diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA).<\/p>\n

Although I live with diabetes, there is something about my children having T1D that makes me want to keep them even healthier and less impacted by it\u2014more so than even I work for it myself, and I work hard at it. \u00a0And even more for them, I want there to be a cure for T1D<\/u>! \u00a0I will continue to do whatever I can to support Breakthrough T1D in trying to find it!<\/p>\n

When I think about the day Kate was diagnosed, or the day I got the phone call about Ryan\u2019s autoantibodies, I vividly remember feeling so numb and in a total state of shock.<\/p>\n