A routine medical appointment “changed the life” of Julianys Medina Serrano when she was just 8 years old. The young girl, who did not know what a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes meant, thought at the time that “I was going to die and that I was alone in this.” She received the unexpected news in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and, after a year of adapting to her new reality at home, returned to school carrying a backpack that contained insulin, snacks, and a glucose meter.