Natural Life Science: Overview on Disease

Diabetes is a disease that has affected several(prenominal) members of my family. Diabetes was known as net profit in my family. My paternal grandmother, maternal great-grandmother, and an aunt died from complications of diabetes. My oldest brother is grammatical case 2 diabetic. He was diagnosed in 2006. In August 2010, I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.\nAs a teenager, I make numerous trips to the pharmacy to retrieve insulin and needles for both my great-grandmother and my aunt. The insulin came in a little white concussion that had to be refrigerated. I watched my granddad administer shots to my great-grandmother every forenoon before breakfast. In 1995, my aunt wanted to travel to Texas with me to bawl out my mother, her sister. By this time, my aunt undeniable a full-time caretaker. Her sightedness was totally g ane and her respectable leg had been amputated below the knee. In order to take her with me I had to learn to administer her insulin shots. I was a nervous collapse but with my aunts encouragement I intentional to fill the needle with the insulin and sense an appropriate location on the body to administer the shot.\nMy offset symptoms were frequent urination and lush thirst. I did non shit any knowledge of the tone-beginning symptoms of diabetes so I attributed these symptoms to working in the hot pass weather and drinking divide of Gatorades. It was not until I started to fix befuddled vision that I sought medical help. The blurred vision happened very suddenly. In July 2010, I went to work one morning and I could not see the writing on my computer screen. It had only been 4 months since my annual eye testing with Dr. Massengale. I was troubled by my lack of vision, so I immediately called Dr. Massengales baron for a follow up eye exam. The examination showed a significant change in my eyesight from my previous prescription. Dr. Massengale asked whether I had been waking up through and through the night to use the ga dget and any notice of increa...