Dealing with diabetes can be a challenging experience. It takes time, patience and positive thinking to weather through a disease. For businesswoman Aisha Becker Burrowes, dealing with diabetes is something she’s lived with her whole life.
Unfortunately, the chronic disease is most common in the Black community. Even worse, Black patients are more likely to die from diabetes due to misconceptions about diabetes and a lack of access to better healthcare practices.
Though, Burrowes is choosing to change her fortune by advocating for herself and others. The businesswoman decided to take control of her life and not let her life-long diagnosis rule her existence.
Instead, Burrowes lives by a set of life lessons that have helped her to accept living with diabetes. Now the businesswoman is passing on her knowledge to other women, in hopes of helping them through their diagnosis. More importantly, she believes the key to living with diabetes is to not give up.
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Living With A Life-Long Disease
Aisha Becker Burrowes has lived with Type 1 Diabetes since she was 10 years old. She was first diagnosed with the chronic disease after eating sweetheart candies during lunchtime.
Burrowes was rushed to the hospital soon after. The young woman told ESSENCE in an essay that “it felt like years had gone by” since being in the hospital.
Burrowes, however, would soon learn that she’d have to spend her life in and out of doctor’s appointments, taking insulin injections and constantly monitoring her blood sugar levels.
Last year, Burrowes expressed to ESSENCE that living with diabetes isn’t just a one-time deal, it’s life-long. Unfortunately, she can’t afford to take a day off from managing her chronic disease.
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