When Ellie was diagnosed with type one diabetes at age 8, it was harrowing and heartbreaking. Overwhelming. We knew next to nothing about type one diabetes. The bulk of our “knowledge” came from Steel Magnolias, a film that is heartwarming, gut wrenching, and hardly a good source of medical info...
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From Jackie Rehwald at Springfield News-Leader Photos by Nathan Papes/Springfield News-Leader In 2016, Ellie Rowe was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, a chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin. She was 8 and in third grade. Now a sixth-grader at Springfield Lutheran School, Ellie recalled some of the signs...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Over 1.25 million Americans live with type-1 diabetes, an auto-immune disease that causes the pancreas to stop producing insulin. An increasing number of children under the age of 20 are diagnosed with type-1 diabetes every year. One of those kids is Ellie Rowe, a Springfield-native who hopes...