This photo was taken in 1922 of a little girl who was suffering from diabetes. She was waiting for the end of her life… until a new experimental treatment called “insulin” was used.
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“I love how much more prominent her freckles are in the second picture, possibly suggesting she has been outside more playing vs being sick in bed. : )”
“As a T1d since an early childhood, this is emotional to see. I’m so grateful for the advent of insulin and all the improvements along the way”
“In order to keep these children alive they literally starved them to keep them from going into a diabetic coma and dying.
They were given small amounts of protein and no carbs to try to keep their blood sugar from rising to dangerous levels.
Using porcine insulin was a miracle for those children. I say children because at that time type 1 diabetics didn’t live too long after diagnosis they certainly didn’t survive until adulthood.”