Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Sarah Megazzini's soccer talent makes her a special player regardless of her extenuating circumstances, but the Yorkville (Ill.) High junior's ability to play with Type 1 diabetes makes her all the more remarkable.
Always an athlete, competing in multiple sports at all ages, Megazzini remembers her metabolic disease diagnosis all too well, recalling the precise date (May 23, 2005) in a wonderful Chicago Sun-Times feature.
"As my mother said, ‘What 8-year-old would ask to go see a doctor?' " she told the paper. "But I knew something was wrong. Three days spent in the hospital, I was receiving insulin and being educated on how to count carbohydrates, and deal with high and low blood sugar levels."
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highs...-field-despite-type-1-diabetes-170237164.html
Always an athlete, competing in multiple sports at all ages, Megazzini remembers her metabolic disease diagnosis all too well, recalling the precise date (May 23, 2005) in a wonderful Chicago Sun-Times feature.
"As my mother said, ‘What 8-year-old would ask to go see a doctor?' " she told the paper. "But I knew something was wrong. Three days spent in the hospital, I was receiving insulin and being educated on how to count carbohydrates, and deal with high and low blood sugar levels."
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highs...-field-despite-type-1-diabetes-170237164.html