Freckled Fingertips: short stories of a life long disease

At the age of just fourteen months old Carli Visser was diagnosed with type I diabetes. Along with the diagnosis she was challenged to a duel with her own body. The fight would be relentless and the disease constant. Every aspect of her life was affected. While other girls her age were playing with dolls, Carli was learning to regulate her blood sugar levels and giving herself lifesaving injections. Constantly being held accountable for every energy exertion and caloric intake caused an unattainable desire for perfection. Carli internalized much of the pressure and frustration diabetes caused, and until now has shared little of her story. It has been Carli’s inability to allow diabetes to be an excuse which has given her the power required to overcome diabetes. Freckled Fingertips is the reflection of a courageous passionate young woman and her relationship with her disease. The support of her family and friends, accompanied by an unyielding desire to overcome the challenges of type I diabetes, has helped mold her story. Freckled Fingertips will inform, inspire and educate you in a way only conveyable through firsthand experience. Let her experiences, frustrations, and triumphs be a resource in understanding your own relationship with chronic illness. No matter your relationship with disease, Freckled Fingertips offers insight and understanding into the inner emotions a chronic illness evokes.