Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Each day, Maddie and Ashley McFeeley wake up, get dressed, inject themselves with insulin, eat breakfast, check their blood sugar and head to school.
Since they were toddlers, the twins have learned to live with Type 1 diabetes. Ashley developed diabetes first, when she was 1 1/2, and because the two are identical twins, doctors closely monitored Maddie, who became diabetic at 2 1/2. Ashley described Type 1 diabetes as when "your pancreas doesn't produce the insulin that you need. It doesn't disintegrate the sugars as well as it would if you had the insulin."
Now 15 and sophomores at Providence Day, the girls help others with the disease in a variety of ways.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/10/31/2738340/local-sisters-unite-to-overcome.html
Since they were toddlers, the twins have learned to live with Type 1 diabetes. Ashley developed diabetes first, when she was 1 1/2, and because the two are identical twins, doctors closely monitored Maddie, who became diabetic at 2 1/2. Ashley described Type 1 diabetes as when "your pancreas doesn't produce the insulin that you need. It doesn't disintegrate the sugars as well as it would if you had the insulin."
Now 15 and sophomores at Providence Day, the girls help others with the disease in a variety of ways.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/10/31/2738340/local-sisters-unite-to-overcome.html