Parade.com’s Caitlin O’Toole checked in with Elliott Yamin on managing his diabetes while maintaining his successful career. With his single "Wait for You" having gone gold recently, it’s obvious that Elliott has not let his illness get in the way of his singing. He is doing so well, in fact, that he’d like to use his status to help others who have diabetes.
Elliott admits that he hasn’t always had the clarity that he has now. When he was diagnosed at 15, he tells Ms. O’Toole, "It was hard for me to adjust to treating my diabetes, but it was also hard to admit that I had it. I was in denial. That was a big hump for me to get over. I didnt understand how I could just go from being a normal kid to having this incurable lifelong disease in a matter of a days time. [...]
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