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The Changing Face of Diabetes – yorkregion.com

November 12th, 2019 4:47 pm

When a 41-year-old African-Canadian man who enjoyed long bike rides on his fixie and pick-up basketball and whose go-to snack was broccoli buds was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, it obviously came as a surprise.

Oddly, it was a welcome one.

I really thought I was dying, says Daaki Meade, So, when they told me it was diabetes, I was actually relieved.

Daakis symptoms began in 2016. Suddenly, he found it difficult to lift things, and when he stood up too quickly he got head rushes.

Walking home with groceries, I was finding it difficult to carry the bag, he recalls, I had to stop twice in a two-block radius. I was so tired, and it was so heavy.

Daakis appetite decreased but he was thirsty all the time and urinated frequently. He was anxious, depressed and sleeping a lot. He lost weight rapidly, dropping from 250 to 200 pounds over only a few weeks. Soon he was bedridden.

It really seemed like I could lose him, recalls his fianc, Arlee-Anne Goldson. She called 911.

When the ambulance arrived, Daaki couldnt walk. The paramedics brought him to the Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Centre at Mount Sinai Hospital, where tests revealed his blood sugar levels were four times higher than normal a telltale sign of diabetes.

In fact, it was severe onset type 1 diabetes, a disease that usually presents under the age of 35.

Daaki was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit while his care team assessed the disease.

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