Pamela Fernandes Biography

At four years of age Pam Fernandes learned a word that most four year olds rarely if ever even know: diabetes. She was diagnosed at this very young age with Type I insulin dependent diabetes. The Connecticut native the youngest girl in a family of five boys and two girls learned to manage the disease and became a high school basketball and softball player. Fernandes' physical challenges intensified when at 18 years of age she began losing her sight one of the most common complications of the disease. She as well as anyone understood the seriousness of her condition as she began the very long road that would lead to over 30 operations. She had lost her older brother Mark to the same disease. Odds makers would have thought she was beaten but not Fernandes. Determined and still fiercely independent in spite of enormous physical challenges she continued her undergraduate studies at Boston's Wheelock College. She earned her BS in education all while undergoing dialysis treatments three days a week for kidney disease the second major complication of her diabetes. She received her degree in education in May of 1985 to a standing ovation.

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