Morrill High School senior Sadie Cooley was distraught when she found out four years ago that she has Type 1 diabetes, a condition that she says nearly caused her to lose her life. However, Cooley has learned to adapt to living with Type 1 diabetes, and she said she’s a stronger, more grateful person after going through this experience. She now wants to become an endocrinologist so she can help other kids with diabetes.
JEFF FIELDER Editor
MORRILL – Sadie Cooley was a healthy, happy, 14-year-old girl who was excited for her freshman athletic year at Morrill High School.
She trained extra hard the summer after her eighth-grade year in preparation for her first prep volleyball, basketball and track and field seasons. She felt tired after workouts, which is normal, except Cooley started to feel more exhausted than usual as the summer of 2016 went along.
She shrugged it off at first, but over the course of a few weeks, she sensed that something wasn’t quite right. She started getting headaches, she started feeling more dehydrated, she didn’t eat as much, she began urinating more often, and she became increasingly more fatigued.
“I didn’t know if I was just overworking myself or if I was getting the flu or what,” said Cooley, who’s now a senior at Morrill High School.
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