Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
When Kristi Pennington Shanks, 29, started a prison ministry called A New Beginning to ease inmates' transition back into society, little did she know that a 24-year-old former prisoner — who took his life three weeks after his release — would give her a new beginning as well.
Since her diagnosis with type 1 diabetes at age 12, Shanks had struggled with a disease that was destroying her body.
"By the time I was in high school, I had nerve damage in my organs and outer limbs," said Shanks. Usually you have diabetes for 30 or 40 years before you get to that."
Shanks was warned that having a child could be risky, so when in 2010 she found out she was pregnant she braced for the worst.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...h-gives-diabetic-crucial-transplant/15985517/
Since her diagnosis with type 1 diabetes at age 12, Shanks had struggled with a disease that was destroying her body.
"By the time I was in high school, I had nerve damage in my organs and outer limbs," said Shanks. Usually you have diabetes for 30 or 40 years before you get to that."
Shanks was warned that having a child could be risky, so when in 2010 she found out she was pregnant she braced for the worst.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...h-gives-diabetic-crucial-transplant/15985517/