Meghan
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | Medical Student |
| Location | Sacramento, CA |
| Introduction | I am a first year medical student and spent most of life singing and studying music before I realized that my calling was to medicine. On my 25th Birthday I recieved a phone call from my doctor telling me that my fasting blood glucose was 127 for the second time in a row, but for complicated reasons, she avoided the word diabetes. She brushed it under the rug, and so did I. "If my doctor didn't take it seriously, then why should I," I convinced myself? 18-months later the symptoms couldn't hide themselves anymore--I was thirsty, lethargic, moody and peeing all the time. My A1C was 7.9% and I could no longer live in denial. After numerous tests to rule out Type I, I was officially diagnosed with Type II diabetes in November 2007. |
| Interests | singing, opera, running, cycling, swimming (just need to put them together now), hiking, theater, diabetes, epilepsy, playing bridge, cooking. |
| Favorite Movies | Shrek, Life of Brian, Fight Club, Dangerous Liasons, La Bella Vita, American Beauty, Office Space. |
| Favorite Music | Mozart, Puccini, Radiohead, Frank Sinatra, Bizet, Faure, Stravinsky, Bob Dylan, Queen, Stephen Sondheim, Gilbert and Sullivan, Mahler. |
| Favorite Books | The Giving Tree, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, The Divine Comedy, The Decameron, Slaughter House Five, The Importance of Being Interest. |
Your hand has been replaced by a rubber stamp. What does it say?
Dude!