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After my release from hospital, I remember the hope that filled my parent’s eyes, hearing that we should have a cure very soon for this disease. Year after year as I visited The Children’s Hospital, and Endocrinologist after Endocrinologist, waiting and waiting. I still remember hearing at the age of 13 that a cure will be here by the time I am 18, sure enough that came and went. I am now 39 years of age, and I am still waiting for a cure. So after reading that fact, that every 6 seconds, a diabetic dies, I get shivers down my spine. But I also get adrenalin running through my veins, and a determination to want a cure more than ever. I want to see this happen in my lifetime, as I have heard about this since I was diagnosed 34 years ago.