Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
MONROE -- Jack O'Shaughnessy's inner alarm rang in distress as the symptoms refused to subside. He couldn't quench his excessive thirst. He made trips to the bathroom every 15 minutes.
Just 48 hours later, the day before Thanksgiving of his freshman year at Masuk, his fears were realized. O'Shaughnessy was stricken with Type 1 diabetes, a disease doctors told him could not be cured.
"At the beginning, it was really frustrating," O'Shaughnessy, now a senior, said last week. "I thought it was going to change everything and it was going to be such a big obstacle for me."
His younger sister, Lauren, had been living with the same condition since she was 9. So Jack, a three-sport athlete, was familiar with the sudden challenges ahead.
http://www.ctpost.com/highschool/article/For-the-O-Shaughnessys-these-shots-count-4872759.php
Just 48 hours later, the day before Thanksgiving of his freshman year at Masuk, his fears were realized. O'Shaughnessy was stricken with Type 1 diabetes, a disease doctors told him could not be cured.
"At the beginning, it was really frustrating," O'Shaughnessy, now a senior, said last week. "I thought it was going to change everything and it was going to be such a big obstacle for me."
His younger sister, Lauren, had been living with the same condition since she was 9. So Jack, a three-sport athlete, was familiar with the sudden challenges ahead.
http://www.ctpost.com/highschool/article/For-the-O-Shaughnessys-these-shots-count-4872759.php