Finding and Fulfilling Your Purpose
Credit: Alec Knopf, Video Producer, Schweitzer United Methodist Church, Springfield, MO...
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Type One Diabetes A-Z
Credit: Alec Knopf, Video Producer, Schweitzer United Methodist Church, Springfield, MO...
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...