Malorie Anderson
Bio
I am 24 years old, and a mother to the most wonderful little boy. I am happily married and living in a small town in Illinois, USA.
Stories (5/0)
Delilah's Story
I grew up in a small town in Illinois. All there was there was corn fields. The high school even had a ‘Bring Your Tractor to School Day!’ every year. Half the high school kids were farm kids who basically lived in the FFA (Future Farmers of America) classroom. The other half were smoking in the parking lot. Unless you were super involved in everything, you didn’t get noticed at my school.
By Malorie Anderson6 years ago in Families
Love
I unload the last box into my new home. I can’t believe I own my own home. It is a cute one bedroom house in the upper north end of Chicago. I spent all of my high school career saving money and thus was able to buy it outright. I landed a job as a junior editor for a newspaper in Chicago. My excellent test scores, awards, and publishing my works online throughout high school paid off. I am the youngest employee in my office by far, at just eighteen-years-old. As I carry the last box inside, I notice a truck with a trailer full of boxes has pulled up in the driveway of the house beside mine. I decide to set my last box inside and ask if they need any help.
By Malorie Anderson6 years ago in Humans
Relief
August 8th, 2008 It's 8:00 am. My step father, mother, and I are in the doctor's office. I've just had blood work done and are awaiting the results. The doctor comes into the room with a serious look on his face, lacking his usual playful attitude. I've been diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. It is eleven days away from my eleventh birthday. The rest of that day is a blur of lab work, education classes, shots, and paperwork. That was 9 years ago. Since that day I have had at least 3,650 syringe injections of insulin, 728 insulin pump sites, 19,710 finger sticks to check my blood sugar levels, and 270 doctor appointments, that's 30 a year. These numbers are a rough estimate, but I'm sure it's more.
By Malorie Anderson6 years ago in Potent