WINDSOR, CT - Nearly everyone knows someone who has diabetes. The disease impacts 25.8 million children and adults in this country, translating into about 8.3% of the total population. Jane Andrews of East Hartford is among that 8.3%.
“For more than 35 years, I did my best to manage juvenile diabetes but I always lived in fear that my illness would eventually debilitate me,” she said. “I ultimately spent two years on dialysis after my kidneys began to fail.”
There are three types of diabetes: type 1 is typically diagnosed during childhood, type 2 is the most common type of diabetes and is the result of the body not using insulin properly and genstational diabetes occurs during pregnancy.
Like so many others who suffer with diabetes, Jane Andrews was put on the organ transplant list for a new kidney and pancreas. These new organs held the key to to a life of freedom for Jane, not needing to rely on a machine to filter her blood in order to live.
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