Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
September doesn?t just mean a return to school and football for 13-year-old Zak Phillips. This year, September has a new meaning. This is the year he starts his quest for a cure to type 1 diabetes.
?I want to find a cure so I don?t have to get shots anymore,? Zak said last week, on the same football field where less than a year ago he and his teammates went to the Pop Warner regional playoff tournament.
It was a sports highlight to be sure, but when one season ended, another ? basketball ? began. And, when that season ended, baseball began. Another year for the three-sport athlete, but this one was different.
His parents started to notice subtle changes in his body that, though they wanted to excuse as part of growing up, they couldn?t, his mother Mychelle Phillips said last week. Ultimately, Zak was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, formerly called juvenile diabetes,
http://www.telegram.com/article/20120809/COULTER03/108109877/1330&TEMPLATE=COULTER
?I want to find a cure so I don?t have to get shots anymore,? Zak said last week, on the same football field where less than a year ago he and his teammates went to the Pop Warner regional playoff tournament.
It was a sports highlight to be sure, but when one season ended, another ? basketball ? began. And, when that season ended, baseball began. Another year for the three-sport athlete, but this one was different.
His parents started to notice subtle changes in his body that, though they wanted to excuse as part of growing up, they couldn?t, his mother Mychelle Phillips said last week. Ultimately, Zak was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, formerly called juvenile diabetes,
http://www.telegram.com/article/20120809/COULTER03/108109877/1330&TEMPLATE=COULTER