I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when I was 28. Around that time my marraige was going sour and I was headed for a divorce. After I left my husband I went into a downward spiral and couldn't pull myself out of the depression that was weighing me down. I started losing weight like crazy and decided that I loved the weight loss, more than I cared about my health. I was living with constant yeast infections, painful bartholin cysts that were severly infected. I could not focus my eyes, my feet would burn, my legs ached, my mind was foggy, and I was extremely tired. You name it I was feeling it. After being hospitalized numerous times and being told by doctors, that I was killing myself, I still did not want to comply. I have recently remarried and my husband and I have a total of 10 kids together. This new begining has opened my eyes and made me realize that I don't want to live my life in a hospital bed and that being thin isn't all that matters in life. I have been taking my insulin religiously and though there is damage from my bull headed years of being in denial and telling myself I wasn't sick. I feel great!!! Please take this disease seriously and care for it as soon as you are diagnosed. I have wasted years of my life by not caring. You are worth the fight!

Melissa Widdison
Riverton, UT