as a child growing up I can't remember ever worrying about war, hunger, racism, natural disaster, isolation poverty, noise, chaos, disease environmental pollution and violence, but then I thought about as a child when I was in the 6th grade I had gotten sick at school and I can't quite remember how I was feeling that day but I do remember feeling and looking bad and my hair was in a pony tail, my skin was kind of rough, so  maybe about 10:00 or 10:30 my mother came to the school to get me and to take me to the doctor to find out what was wrong. Once there they did blood work and from there they gave me something to drink  like a coke to test me to see if I had sugar. I had to sit for 2 hours and once that was done the doctor came and told my mother I was on the border line to being a diabetic. The doctor gave me some medicine to take and told my mother to change my eating habits and to also have me checked out for sugar every six months, but as I got older I got the test done once a year. Now I didn't have any symptoms like thirsty for water, itchiness or going to the bathroom a lot. What I have done over the years every since I out found that I was on the border line for diabetes I stop eating a lot of carbohydrates like rice, spaghetti's, mac-noodles I also had slacked down on chips and cookies. I found out about 10years ago my mother was diagnosed a a diabetic and the following year 1 had a brother that was diagnosed as a diabetic, and about 4years my baby brother found out that he was a diabetic. My grandmother was a diabetic on my daddy side for about 20 years before she died in 1997. 
I choose Louisiana in he United States because when Katrina hit in 2005 they had many problems such as not enough food to eat, hardly no medical services, no clean water to drink, no clean clothes to put on, and they did not have a place to stay. Some people stayed in trailers that was donated by the government and if they had relatives and friends somewhere else who they could stay with they did that. What was done to help the children and adults was that people all over the United States sent money in to help them and people came from all over to help clean up Louisiana. Different companies and business donated bottles of water, clean clothes, medical supplies and detergent to wash clothes with and soap to bath with. 
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