Dumb Diabetes: A Short Story

Dumb Diabetes
It all started last summer, when Mom and I were in LL Bean. For those of you who don’t know, my hometown of Freeport Maine, is the head quarters of all LL Bean stores. It’s a huge complex of stores, including a giant hiking boot out front. There are a lot of kids’ areas, so that the parents can shop, while their kids are playing. Anyways, it was August 25. Just an average day in the life of Marielle (that’s me). “How much longer Mom?” I whined. Until, that life changing moment, I had always been kind of a whiny spoiled brat. Looking back on that, I started to realize that. And suddenly, I got a terrible headache, and felt like I was going to die! I said to Mom, “I have to go to the bathroom,” and frantically ran
I honestly had no clue what was happening to me. Anyway… You’re probably wondering, “why should I care,” since it happens so often? The answer is, because I got a mere twenty feet, and everything went dark. When I collapsed, my Mom apparently screamed, “someone call 911!” When woke up, I saw Mom and Dad through my hazy vision, and then it went dark again. I don’t remember anything else from that LL Bean trip except that we were there because I needed new hiking boots for our trip to the Rocky Mountains the week after. When I woke up the next time, I woke up just to vomit on the chair that my Mom had abandoned, mere seconds before. It was close. I heard Mom say, “what’s wrong with her? She’s never acted like this before…” Unfortunately, before the conversation ended, I had fallen asleep. The last time I woke up was when it was dark outside. “Where am I?” I asked
“You are in the hospital, Marielle.” she replied quite calmly, especially considering how she had just told me that I was in the HOSPITAL! “Um… this is a dream… right?” I asked, still confused as to how I could have gone from LL Bean to the hospital so quickly, without remembering anything. “No sweetie, you collapsed at LL Bean, and someone called 911, so we took you to the hospital. You have been asleep for quite a while. Your parents went home for the night, but should be back in a few hours.” She explained. “Somehow,” I thought, “she has kept the same face through this whole conversation.” But then I realized that there were tubes coming out of me and literally, I mean literally, as in, I actually did this… I screamed! The nurse must have thought that I was dying or something, because for once, her facial expression changed. A few hours later, Mom and Dad came bursting in. I wasn’t all that surprised to see them, especially considering that I had just been watching TV for the past 4 hours. “Hi Mom, hi Dad,” I said to them. “Oh! Thank goodness you’re awake!” my dad replied quickly. “Can someone please tell me what’s wrong with me sometime soon?” I asked them with qute a bit of