Welcome to the Inspiring Story of High School Math Teacher Taylor Schofield
SAN ANTONIO – There’s a lot of preparation for teachers who are about to welcome students into their classrooms, but planning school days isn’t just curriculum for one local high school teacher, and others like her.
“I was diagnosed March 23, 2007. So right before I turned seven years old,” said Health Careers High School math teacher Taylor Schofield.
For 17 years, Schofield has learned how to cope with her Type 1 diabetes.
It’s an autoimmune disease where the pancreas doesn’t make insulin, different from Type 2 diabetes. Type 1 is often diagnosed in children and it has no cure.
“I went to the bathroom a lot. I was constantly drinking water,” she said, describing two of the big red flag symptoms.
The main symptoms include:
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Extreme thirst
Once diagnosed, most kids are immediately hospitalized, like Schofield was.
Treatment plans typically develop from there and now commonly involve a new technology pump, like a Dexcom.
“A Dexcom, I currently wear on the back of my arm and it tracks your blood sugar for you. Then my Omnipod I wear on my leg, and this is what lets me give myself insulin,” she said while showing her devices.
The devices are game changers? for people like Schofield who have demanding and active jobs.
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