Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Moorhead, MN (WDAY TV) - If you're a student-athlete, it's hard enough to balance the demands of school and your sport.
Now imagine you have to do it while checking your blood sugar and giving yourself insulin shots several times a day, every day.
WDAY 6?s Trevor Peterson has the story of Concordia's Luke Gotta, who's learned to manage his diabetes enough to play college football,
Luke Gotta/Concordia Sr. Fullback: ?I can't really remember my life without it. It's always been insulin shots and checking my blood sugar.?
About 3,000,000 Americans have Type One or juvenile diabetes, where the body doesn't produce the hormone insulin. Without insulin to convert food into energy, death will occur. Luke Gotta was diagnosed with Type One diabetes at age 10.
http://www.wday.com/event/article/id/90228/
Now imagine you have to do it while checking your blood sugar and giving yourself insulin shots several times a day, every day.
WDAY 6?s Trevor Peterson has the story of Concordia's Luke Gotta, who's learned to manage his diabetes enough to play college football,
Luke Gotta/Concordia Sr. Fullback: ?I can't really remember my life without it. It's always been insulin shots and checking my blood sugar.?
About 3,000,000 Americans have Type One or juvenile diabetes, where the body doesn't produce the hormone insulin. Without insulin to convert food into energy, death will occur. Luke Gotta was diagnosed with Type One diabetes at age 10.
http://www.wday.com/event/article/id/90228/