A8 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 Record-Courier WWW.RECORDPUB.COM Southeast eighth-grader shares battle with diabetes Today Southeast eighth grader Michaela Ross will celebrate her one-year “diaversary” of being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. It was March of last year when Michaela went from being an active, out- going kid to a tired and sick one, Doctors first di- agnosed her with a sinus infection and then flu, but they were unaware that she would be near death soon. She was rushed to the hospital last year for breathing problems. When she arrived, her blood-sugar levels were high — almost 700 — and she was in what’s called diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) that many kids die from if undiagnosed. “We almost lost her, ” her mom, Kim, remem- bered. “The ICU doctor said this is the closest to death she’ll ever be. She was that close.” The next few months were a roller coaster ride of high and low blood- sugar levels, constant pain and doctor visits that she describes as a blur. Her only source of comfort was rock and roller Bret Michaels’ di- abetic tea, Trop-a-rocka. The first month of di- agnosis, Kim reached out to Michaels, who diag- nosed as diabetic when he was 6 years old, who showed her there is life beyond diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is a chronic condition in which the pancreas pro- duces little or no insulin. It’s commonly confused with Type 2 diabetes that can be caused by a poor diet. To keep her blood- sugar level under control, Michaela wears a pump on her stomach that de- livers insulin every three days and a dexcom that monitors her blood sugar levels. It alerts her phone if her levels get too high or low. She’ll never again be able to eat without tak- ing insulin, her mom said. She’s also encouraged a healthier diet, eating oat- meal for breakfast and salad for lunch. Michaela decided she was going to help others with diabetes and be- come an endocrinologist because they should live diabetes, not practice it. First, she created an Instagram, where she posts funny diabet- ic memes, inspiration- al quotes and useful in- formation on diabetes she shares with her new support group. She’s reached almost 1,900 fol- lowers and hopes to soon reach her goal of 10,000. “Since my first mem- ory, I remember that I always wanted to help people,” she said. “My main thing is I’ve always wanted to be a doctor and this lead me to want to be an endocrinolo- gist. On my social me- dia, people message me, children my age and old- er, and if they’re having a bad day I help them through it and just try to encourage them to keep pushing and don’t give up.” One of her goals is to create a non-profit and raise money to send kids in her neighborhood and school to diabetes camp, which is costly to keep a staff of doctors and nurses on hand. She also wants to raise money for hospitals so that every child will be tested for diabetes to prevent oth- ers from going into DKA like she did. Her family, friends, school and communi- ty are behind her every step of the way. She’s a pretty amazing kid, Kim Ross said about her daughter. “I read the messages she gets online and I cry because she’s making such a difference.” The most exciting re- ward she’s gotten so far was meeting Nick Jo- nas at his show in Cleve- land a few weeks ago. She got backstage pass- es for becoming the first Gold Ambassador to Jo- nas’ organization, Be- yond Type 1, that pro- vides education geared toward youth. The day before meeting Nick, Mi- chaela’s blood sugar lev- el dropped to the lowest it had ever been. “Some days are good. Some days are really bad,” she shrugged. Last year, Michaela missed more than 70 days of school, but that didn’t stop her from achieving honor roll throughout the year. This year, she’s taking all hon- ors classes, and she’s up to the challenge. “It encourages me to keep going,” Michaela said. “Going back to school last year was very hard. My numbers were crazy. This year, I feel more of a diabetic and not an inconvenience.” Michaela and her mom cried and laughed look- ing back on last year’s ride, but it’s given her the strength she’ll need in life to fight diabetes, to help others understand the disease and to one day be a doctor that tru- ly knows the pain these kids go through because she lives it herself. By KELLY MAILE | STAFF WRITER Michaela Ross hopes to educate others about disease and how to live with it AMANDA WOOLF/RECORD-COURIER Michaela Ross, who was diagnosed with Type I diabetes a year ago today, uses social media to share information about diabetes and how to cope with it. Rootstown FD to hire internally to fill lieutenant’s slot The Rootstown Fire Department will hire from within its ranks to replace Lt. Gabe Tabel- ing, who resigned to ac- cept afull-time position with the Streetsboro Fire Department. “We do test internal- ly,” Fire Chief Charles Palmer Jr. said. “Only our members will be tested.” Palmer said the selec- tion process includes a written exam, physi- cal testing and a medi- cal and psychological ex- aminations. “For the physical agil- ity, we send them up to Tri-C,” he aid. “They have to complete it in seven minutes. We send them for a psych exam and then we have to offer them a conditional em- ployment before we send them for a medical sur- veillance test. We have to offer them the job first by law and the medical sur- veillance test is required by the Ohio Police and Fire Pension System.” Trustees agreed to start the hiring process for a new full-time lieu- tenant. Tabeling’s last day was Sept. 23 but he will re- main with the depart- ment as a part-time em- ployee. Tabeling will teach the CPR certification course that is offered through the township. In the past, Tabeling taught the course to the town- ship’s road maintenance crew and coaches at Rootstown High School. Tabeling also will ontin- ue to teach fire safety and prevention week in the Rootstown School District. Palmer asked trustees to purchase new mat- tresses for the dormito- ry at the fire station. The current mattresses are 12 years old, he said. The trustees agreed to pur- chase the new mattress- es through Randolph Home Furnishings. The fire department will also be getting a new sup- ply of residential key box- es. Palmer said the de- partment has installed 400 boxes in the township. The township pro- vides the rapid access program to residents for free. It allows for emer- gency responders to ac- cess and provide medi- cal care in an emergency without causing damage to homes. The program con- sists of securing a key box outside the resi- dence that only Root- stown Fire Department personnel have access to, Palmer said. Contact this reporter at 330-541- 9416 or [email protected]. By KELLY MAILE | STAFF WRITER READING ROLE MODEL Portage County District Library closed Oct. 10 All offices and branches of the Portage County District Li- brary will be closed on Oct. 10, in observance of Columbus Day. Service hours will resume on Oct. 11. Although branch loca- tions will be closed, the Digital Library is available 24/7. Using a Portage County District Library card, enjoy free access to digital movies, TV shows, music, au- diobooks, eBooks, and maga- zines. For more information about these services, visit Por- tage County District Library on- line at www.portagelibrary.org. SUBMIITTED PHOTO U nited Way’s Reading Role Mod- el program mobilizes corporate and community volunteers such as Sandra Haskell, who read to kindergar- ten class at West Park Elementary School in Ravenna, to share their love of reading with local students. For more information or to register to be a reading role model go to www.uwportage.org/reading-role-models or call Maureen Gebhardt of the United Way of Portage County at 330-297-1424. Sugar Bush Knolls Village Council mill meet at 7 p.m. Oct. 11 in the vocational con- ference room at Theodore Roosevelt High School, 1400 N. Mantua St., Kent. Sugar Bush Knolls council to meet DOES YOUR HOME NEED IMPROVING? INTRODUCING THE HOME IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM $ 1 For more information, contact a participating financial institution: Hometown Bank – 330-673-9827 Middlefield Banking Company – 330-274-0881 Portage Community Bank – 330-296-8090 Million in funds AVAILABLE All Institutions are Members FDIC, Equal Housing Lenders Program Administered by Brad Cromes, Portage County Treasurer KO-10486333 Low interest home improvement loans for Portage County homeowners. Interest rates 3% below bank’s normal offer for the first 5 years! APPLY NOW 330-297-3586 NORTH CHESTNUT MEDICAL ARTS BUILDING 6693 N. 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A8 SundAy, OctOber 2, 2016 Record-Courier WWW.RECORDPUB.COM
Southeast eighth-grader shares battle with diabetes
Today Southeast eighth grader Michaela Ross will celebrate her one-year “diaversary” of being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.
It was March of last year when Michaela went from being an active, out-going kid to a tired and sick one, Doctors first di-agnosed her with a sinus infection and then flu, but they were unaware that she would be near death soon.
She was rushed to the hospital last year for breathing problems. When she arrived, her blood-sugar levels were high — almost 700 — and she was in what’s called diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) that many kids die from if undiagnosed.
“We almost lost her, ” her mom, Kim, remem-bered. “The ICU doctor said this is the closest to death she’ll ever be. She was that close.”
The next few months were a roller coaster ride of high and low blood-sugar levels, constant pain and doctor visits
that she describes as a blur. Her only source of comfort was rock and roller Bret Michaels’ di-abetic tea, Trop-a-rocka.
The first month of di-agnosis, Kim reached out to Michaels, who diag-nosed as diabetic when he was 6 years old, who showed her there is life beyond diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes is a chronic condition in which the pancreas pro-duces little or no insulin. It’s commonly confused with Type 2 diabetes that can be caused by a poor diet. To keep her blood-sugar level under control, Michaela wears a pump on her stomach that de-livers insulin every three days and a dexcom that monitors her blood sugar levels. It alerts her phone if her levels get too high or low.
She’ll never again be able to eat without tak-ing insulin, her mom said. She’s also encouraged a healthier diet, eating oat-meal for breakfast and salad for lunch.
Michaela decided she was going to help others with diabetes and be-
come an endocrinologist because they should live diabetes, not practice it.
First, she created an Instagram, where she posts funny diabet-ic memes, inspiration-al quotes and useful in-formation on diabetes she shares with her new support group. She’s reached almost 1,900 fol-lowers and hopes to soon reach her goal of 10,000.
“Since my first mem-ory, I remember that I always wanted to help people,” she said. “My main thing is I’ve always wanted to be a doctor and this lead me to want to be an endocrinolo-gist. On my social me-dia, people message me, children my age and old-er, and if they’re having a bad day I help them through it and just try to encourage them to keep pushing and don’t give up.”
One of her goals is to create a non-profit and raise money to send kids in her neighborhood and school to diabetes camp, which is costly to keep a staff of doctors and nurses on hand. She also wants to raise money for hospitals so that every child will be tested for diabetes to prevent oth-ers from going into DKA
like she did.Her family, friends,
school and communi-ty are behind her every step of the way. She’s a pretty amazing kid, Kim Ross said about her daughter.
“I read the messages she gets online and I cry because she’s making such a difference.”
The most exciting re-ward she’s gotten so far was meeting Nick Jo-nas at his show in Cleve-land a few weeks ago. She got backstage pass-es for becoming the first Gold Ambassador to Jo-nas’ organization, Be-yond Type 1, that pro-vides education geared toward youth. The day before meeting Nick, Mi-chaela’s blood sugar lev-el dropped to the lowest it had ever been.
“Some days are good. Some days are really bad,” she shrugged.
Last year, Michaela missed more than 70 days of school, but that didn’t stop her from achieving honor roll throughout the year. This year, she’s taking all hon-ors classes, and she’s up to the challenge.
“It encourages me to keep going,” Michaela said. “Going back to school last year was very
hard. My numbers were crazy. This year, I feel more of a diabetic and not an inconvenience.”
Michaela and her mom cried and laughed look-ing back on last year’s ride, but it’s given her
the strength she’ll need in life to fight diabetes, to help others understand the disease and to one day be a doctor that tru-ly knows the pain these kids go through because she lives it herself.
By Kelly Maile | Staff WRitER
Michaela Ross hopes to educate others about disease and how to live with it
aManDa WOOlf/RECORD-COURiERMichaela Ross, who was diagnosed with Type i diabetes a year ago today, uses social media to share information about diabetes and how to cope with it.
Rootstown FD to hire internally to fill lieutenant’s slot
The Rootstown Fire Department will hire from within its ranks to replace Lt. Gabe Tabel-ing, who resigned to ac-cept afull-time position with the Streetsboro Fire Department.
“We do test internal-ly,” Fire Chief Charles Palmer Jr. said. “Only our members will be tested.”
Palmer said the selec-tion process includes a written exam, physi-cal testing and a medi-cal and psychological ex-aminations.
“For the physical agil-ity, we send them up to Tri-C,” he aid. “They have to complete it in seven minutes. We send them for a psych exam and then we have to offer them a conditional em-ployment before we send them for a medical sur-veillance test. We have to offer them the job first by law and the medical sur-veillance test is required by the Ohio Police and Fire Pension System.”
Trustees agreed to start the hiring process for a new full-time lieu-tenant.
Tabeling’s last day was Sept. 23 but he will re-main with the depart-ment as a part-time em-ployee.
Tabeling will teach the CPR certification course
that is offered through the township. In the past, Tabeling taught the course to the town-ship’s road maintenance crew and coaches at Rootstown High School. Tabeling also will ontin-ue to teach fire safety and prevention week in the Rootstown School District.
Palmer asked trustees to purchase new mat-tresses for the dormito-ry at the fire station. The current mattresses are 12 years old, he said. The trustees agreed to pur-chase the new mattress-es through Randolph Home Furnishings.
The fire department will also be getting a new sup-ply of residential key box-es. Palmer said the de-partment has installed 400 boxes in the township.
The township pro-vides the rapid access program to residents for free. It allows for emer-gency responders to ac-cess and provide medi-cal care in an emergency without causing damage to homes.
The program con-sists of securing a key box outside the resi-dence that only Root-stown Fire Department personnel have access to, Palmer said.
Contact this reporter at 330-541- 9416 or [email protected].
By Kelly Maile | Staff WRitER
Reading Role model Portage County District library closed Oct. 10all offices and branches of
the Portage County District li-brary will be closed on Oct. 10, in observance of Columbus Day. Service hours will resume on Oct. 11. although branch loca-tions will be closed, the Digital library is available 24/7. Using
a Portage County District library card, enjoy free access to digital movies, tV shows, music, au-diobooks, eBooks, and maga-zines. for more information about these services, visit Por-tage County District library on-line at www.portagelibrary.org.
SUBMiittED PhOtO
United Way’s Reading Role Mod-el program mobilizes corporate and community volunteers such
as Sandra Haskell, who read to kindergar-ten class at West Park Elementary School in Ravenna, to share their love of reading with local students. For more information or to register to be a reading role model go to www.uwportage.org/reading-role-models or call Maureen Gebhardt of the United Way of Portage County at 330-297-1424.
Sugar Bush Knolls Village Council mill meet at 7 p.m. Oct. 11 in the vocational con-ference room at theodore Roosevelt high School, 1400 n. Mantua St., Kent.
Sugar Bush Knolls council to meet
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Your family will have the opportunity to tour Hoban’s facilities and meet with faculty, staff, administrators, coaches, parents and students.
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