Drawing Diabetes: Diabetes Through the Eyes of Children

[c0rp53f4c3]

This made me cry. How beautiful.

[janetsinger19]

I was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 2 and I am now 41 years old with no complications. I do, however, have many low blood sugar episodes and sometimes it is hard to manage blood sugar control. I know children who are diagnosed with diabetes will be okay as long as they take good care of themselves and stick to a well balanced diet. Look at me, I am proof children can live a long life with diabetes. Smiles to all the children with this illness

[tudiabetes]

Not sure, geminigirl5. Do you have a reference as to who this is, so we can check?

[taylapearl]

I need serious answers :

- What are the symptoms?

- Are they recognisable?

- How old can you be?

- Can it cause joint pains?

Thanks x x

Its just i watch and listen to Nick Jonas talk about diabetes, and so im more aware. I think my friend has the symptoms. They thought she had anemia where she doesnt get enough iron. and has a low red blood count, well they were wrong. IT COULD BE TYPE 1 DIABETES ! She is being tested, as we speak.

[tudiabetes]

Hi Tayla,

Some of the most common symptoms are EXCESSIVE thirst and urination (many, many times in the course of the night, for instance). There is really no age: type 1 diabetes can develop at a very early age or LADA (a form of type 1) can develop later in life. Type 2 diabetes normally appears in adults, but it's also appearing in teenagers. VERY high blood sugar levels for sustained periods of time can cause aching and discomfort throughout the body, indeed.

[taylapearl]

Thanks that helps heaps !

That is basically all the symptoms she had.

Hopefully it isnt that but there waiting for results.

Thanks for the Help .

Tayla. x x

[DaughtersOfDeath1012]

@taylapearl Another symptom is losing weight extremly and rapidly.

[imgood233]

I have diabetes for 3year old. Now im 12 :P

[Iactor13]

i have a pump

[Roan1414]

THIS IS THE STUPIDEST THING EVER BUT I LOVE MY MOM AND DON'T WANT TO TAKE ANY CHANCES If you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 4 hours

[elsifly7]

azLunatika, you can't cure type 1 diabetes by eating healthy. Your body is magically going to start producing insulin again if you eat lots of carrots. Thats the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

[Yolastresort]

1:13 is lol. I know it's insensitive, but still.

[KirbyPwnz13]

lol

[cargeren123]

i have type diabetes my name is thomas i am 14 years old i have had it for 4 months now. yes it is hard yes you need a great deal of responcibility (lol i know i spelt that rong) but its managable and thats what matters. its not fatal in this video it shows it through a childs eye's but it is quite easy to handle and to maintain it becomes second nature and i have not even had it for a year

[cargeren123]

type 1*

[boggabear]

this is a realy nice video im the only one in my family with diabetes im only i was diagones @5

[DietAfro]

Yeah but what about the people that got Type 1

that doesn't go away with no kind of fasting

[azLunatika]

Yeah, that is true for some you are right. Also, this is interesting: when an individual is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, they typically still have 15-20% of the insulin-producing beta cells. If the remaining beta cells can be saved, and the auto-immune response stopped, the pancreas has the opportunity to repair itself and replace the destroyed beta cells.

[DietAfro]

But what if you had for years could that still happen?

[azLunatika]

Oh yeah I think anyone has a chance at curing themselves if they really want to...

[Narikotsu]

azLunatika-

Please tell me you're talking about type two.

[WhiteChocs]

azLunatika.. This is false promises. I'm sorry, but little children who read that are going to be heartbroken when they find out that's all lies.

[JudithIN410]

Signs and symptoms of type 1 diabetes generally are not present until at least 90% of the insulin-producing islet cells of the pancreas have been destroyed. Current research is looking for ways to preserve those cells and increase their numbers.

[kcliatt1]

This was so sad. I'm going to go listen to A Little Bit Longer now.

[gnintendo]

That was sad :(

I've never actually cried when I've watched anything, but if I had to describe the feeling this got pretty close...

[greendagger5]

This is pretty cool, but I thought it was going to be comedy-like.

[lizguitron]

This is so touching. My brother was diagnosed at the age of 6, and many of these drawings are things I've seen around the house, too! Mom getting mad when he gets too "high". Little boy drinking grape juice when he's been running, playing around too much. Thank you so much for posting this. I always hear my brother say "I want to be normal", and these beautiful pictures can show him that other kids feel the same way.

[MCDB91390]

Yeah WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM? It is cute. How does that make her a slut? Your praying for someone to DIE of a disease? You what they say about wishing bad health on someone, IT HAPPNES TO YOU ALMOST ALWAYS. She was a little girl? People like you need help. Dont tell anybody they need to die. ESPICALLY A LITTLE GIRL.

[WarriorCatsSearies]

I SECOUND YOUR OPPION MCDB91390!

[gnintendo]

Thank god for prayers he doesn't answer.

+1 if you've prayed for something you're glad god hasn't answered.

[afoolinlove]

i'm glad that the message about this is getting around because i might not have this but i did lose some one very important to me because of this

[ohemgitsal]

wow what's your problem?? i think this is so touching-i think ur jealous cuzu dont have diabetes that ur not getting attention orsomething. likewho says things like that/ you have a sick mind =|

[EmilyCat200]

I love this video, I'm 11 and I got type 1 when I was 6 right around my b-day. When I was in the hospital I drew a picture of my hand and I drew little smiley faces on each finger. I still have it in my room :)

[utadadivasan]

My sister is 10 and she has type one, she got it a little bit before you did. I pray that there will be a cure one day.

[Travman93]

I'm a Type 1. Most people feel bad for me for being diagnosed 1 week after my first birthday. So 14 years I've have Diabetes, with absolutely no family history. My little brother who is 7 now was also diagnosed when he was 5. It's something, in my opinion, that you learn to deal with, but never really learn to accept the fact that you will have to live the rest of your life with it.

[webkinzluver789]

I'm sorry...

[PrayForNick22]

2:24 is great at doing those pics online!

[allie3157]

thank you!

[i did it :D]

[coolemmy79]

My best friend has type 1 diabetes and my grandma has type 2 but with my best friend sometimes you forget how she has it and have a good time when she is around cause it's not something you worry about with her unless she passes out or her sugar is high or low

[therealmanlycyrus]

It's the same with me, because we share the same best friend. :) My Aunt also has Type 2 diabetes, and one of my other good friends has Type 2 as well. Sometimes you just forget they have it because you're so used to being around them. But, when they are going through rough times, just help them through it. That's what I do.

[AprilSandmeyer]

World Diabetes Day is coming up on Nov 14th. My Daughter's of the American Revolution project is to promote diabetes prevention education. In NYC, if you can't afford to pay, you can still go to the Beth Israel Medical Center's Gerald J. Friedman Diabetes Institute for care, thanks to a grant from the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman New York Foundation for Medical Research. Take care of your health.

[daffyy77]

ok guys maby im ignorant but i have diabetes and i have had it for the last four years

im fine i take care of myself its not to hard... i lived my life 11years with out diabetes and i know what its like from both sides of it honestly if u take care of urself... wich isnot hard uwill live a long healthy life furthermore it makes me sick that ppl with diabetes milk it this much ok GROW UP u lost ur leg cuz u didnt care about it now u know that u should care about ur life its simple to be healthy

[tudiabetes]

Hi daffyy77, you are fortunate. Many of us are. Some other people are not and do not have the means or the access to the type of care or medications that you need in order to best manage their diabetes.

[andreinadav]

The song we used was actually donated by one of the members of the community, who happens to be a wonderful artist. I agree it is a melancholic song, yet lyrics are filled with emotion and love.

The important thing is that the material for this video came from our communities, and that is why it is relevant, maybe not for everybody, but what is amazing is that we can all share and lean a little bit more about diabetes with it.

[doriterecords]

Thanks andreinadav. That is our artist Margaret Marston, who has had Type 1 Diabetes for 23 years and has worn a pump for 15 years. We love the video and we love TuDiabetes!

[tudiabetes]

We are so glad that you stopped by! Thanks for the support!

[theulv]

This smells socks. Is diabetes such an incredibly hard thing to go through that they have to make a video with children's drawings and sad background music? Would be more suitable if it was cancer. I know someone with diabetes and his life is not tragic, he lives quite normally, just some injections everyday.

[tudiabetes]

Many people do just fine most of the time. It seems that your friend is one of them. However, there are many people that go through a lot: as an example, see the person that lost both her legs. Did you know that diabetes is the main cause of blindness besides being born blind?

It's not a about whether cancer is worse or not: I don't think a single person with diabetes would wish diabetes on anyone else. It's about raising awareness, not about saying people's life with diabetes is not normal.

[ToucanX]

Excatly. (I have)

[UpstairsMaid]

after 30 years of type 1 my kidneys started to fail. i went on dialysis for 3 years. 2.5 on peritoneal. a defect in my catheter caused me 2 have peritonitis. i was hospitalized many times. i had a few reactions where i woke up in a hospital. '97 i had a 2 organ transplant - kidney pancreas. diabetes is the 7th most common cause of death in the us. however when one realises that diabetes contributes to stroke and heart the actual number is probably 3rd. easy disease huh?

[OlekDw]

Funny. Nobita at 0:39

[pacojeans126]

the one where he named his pump really touched me. thats a child innocence right there.

[blakeyboycedar]

If kids can draw their experiences from diabetes with a smile, can't we, adult diabetics, "draw" strength from them? But anyways, thanks for bearing with us...

[aliflyaway]

Diabetes is a really hard thing to go through. Its really important to take care of your diabetes because you dont want to find out what happens when you dont. Kids become alot more mature than they have to be when they are faced with something like diabetes.

[rachel57983]

My dad has type two diabetes....the doctors told him that if he had not caught it he would have been dead in a year. That was in 2006. Now my dad doesn't think of diabetes as a big deal. It's just something he has to live with. Uh he's not a kid obviously...but, I just hope that one day we can find a cure.

Stay strong!

(sorry about the paragraph. xDDD)

[ArtFreak17]

For some cases of type 2 diabetes the condition may be reversed by eating healthy and adequate exercise. Especially on early onset.

(Of course there are so many factors that can make these things very difficult.)

I realize this comment was made a month ago- but felt like sharing.

[jeffmagic32]

I've had it since age 3 - My family was about to go to the World Series to watch the Dodgers and Yanks, but instead we all had to go to the hospital. My dad gave the tickets to some kid, so he was happy. Of course everyone was crying that first day, but really it's just something you can deal with - apart from two or three scary incidences, it's just a low level pain in the butt.. or leg, or wherever. :-D

[Orangeprincess067]

that`s so touching

[allie3157]

my pic is in this that i drew :)

this is the most awesome video ever!!

[endematic]

I like this... One of my best friends is 15 and has had Type 1 Diabetes since he was two.

I never really understood why it was so hard until I started hanging around him. It really isn't fair. :/

[tudiabetes]

Indeed there are worse (and inevitably mortal) situations besides diabetes. Still, the purpose of this video is to portray some of its challenges, specially in terms of children who grow up with it.

[lolgast77]

i was four when i got it. The shots hurt, and it sucks. at some point you have enough and you get over it. thats it. i dont really see why people are being so dramatical about it. live with it. lol.

[tudiabetes]

I agree with you, @lolgast. I live it with it too (type 1.5-LADA, using the pump and used to do shots too).

We have to embrace life completely once you have diabetes and not dramatize it. The videos we produce are meant for:

1) Letting people who HAVE diabetes know that they are not alone.

2) Letting people who do not have diabetes know what it is like to have it.

[morri908]

you can never fully understand what diabetes is like unless you have it...

[azLunatika]

I am not saying that this will definitely cure a t1 diabetic- I do however believe that if one follows the diet, their body will have the best chance to naturally heal itself ♥

[morri908]

that's true for every disease, if you eat "healthy" and get all of the nutrients that u need then your body is better off...

[azLunatika]

Yeah, exactly...

[19Kimberly88]

:| why people allways need to think that they have the most bad thing.O please, other people have it more worse then this

[aliflyaway]

To 19Kimberly88:

Yes, but diabetes can be insanely rough sometimes. I've seen diabetes at its worse. if you want to tell me that having your skin eaten away by a diabetic ulcer isn't horrendous than Fine. but you can't tell me that diabetics don't have a rough time.

[Nayoko02]

I have too diabetes :/

[nikosfromkatsikas]

i have diabetes and i am 15. unfortunately i live at Greece where nobody give's a fuck if u live or die. And the state is just fucking around

[lolgast77]

so your saying nobody cares? 0_o thats cruel! find on the internet how to maintain it. stand out.

[spazar0w]

My grandma has diabetes.... dis vid wos sumting special

[lMAXI]

But not special enough to spend the extra 3 and a ½ seconds typing properly ?

[spazar0w]

wtf? I just said I liked it? If you want to write everything out in full thats fine. But if u look at other messages, you'll see that they are not all like that.

Are you happy with my language this time?

[lMAXI]

Yep, thanks

:-)

[torombolas290]

Awesome video! it touched my heart!! thats the reality we live every day!!! NICE NICE VIDEO!!

-Insulin Dependent Diabetic-

[blakeyboycedar]

Nice vid! Made me cry here!

-from me, a Type II diabetic

[HezComin]

Why can't they talk all the money they waste on useless war (for oil) and Cure Diabetes Now!

[smoooshieee]

that's true... I have diabetes I. and I have it 5 years... I don't like it very much... well I hate diabetes but I belive in God... so it's not so painful... I wanna live in Amerika... I think it's better there than in the Czech republic where I live now.. I belive americans found some cure to diabetes.... I hope so...

[JudithIN410]

Sorry, no cure yet for type 1 diabetes, even in America. But researchers all over the world are working on it.....