"I thought it was going to go away - it doesn't, by the way. "At first I was really confused because I didn't know what was happening," Emma said. Like her father, Emma at first didn't know what to make of the diagnosis. In the United States, around 40,000 people are diagnosed each year, with some 1.25 million Americans currently living with the autoimmune disease. Type 1 diabetes, which is often referred to as juvenile diabetes, affects both children and adults, with a diagnosis possible at any age. The doctors said she'd likely been dealing with the disease for two to three months, and at that point her pancreas had stopped producing insulin. The Jokinen's were told that if Emma had not been taken to the emergency room that night, she might have not woken up the next morning. How does something like this happen to a 13-year-old? She's skinny, she eats healthy, she had an active lifestyle. I was like, 'What's that?' My understand of diabetes was that there was only type of diabetes, and that's Type 2, which you typically find in older or heavier people. "She told me that Emma's got Type 1 diabetes. "I got the call two or three hours later," said Olli Jokinen, who had stayed home with his other two daughters, Alexandra and Keira.
Just a few weeks shy of her 13th birthday, Emma was diagnosed with diabetic ketoacidosis. So, late one Friday night, she decided to take Emma to the emergency room, where she was rushed straight to the intensive care unit. She knew what was ailing her daughter wasn't normal and had to find out what it was. Not long after, Katerina said she simply couldn't sleep anymore. "We thought something was odd," Katerina Jokinen said.
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