Frank Henn knew something was wrong on his spring break trip to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
“I was thirsty,” recalled the 46-year-old Jackson resident. “I had to stop at a gas station every 20 minutes to get a Coke and use the bathroom.” Within a month, the 17-year-old was hospitalized, joining the ranks of 1.6 million Americans diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. That number is expected to more than triple over the next three decades. “All I could think was the word ‘die’ is in this disease,” Henn said. “I’m not going to make it through this.
This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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