""I close the book and I look at her, and she's just looking at me with those big brown eyes," Hoda said. "And I go, 'Can I ask you something, honey?' And she goes, 'Yeah.' And I go, 'What's it like to have diabetes?' And she looked at me and she goes, 'Well, it hurts with the needles,'" Hoda continued. "'And it hurts my feelings when I can't have things other kids have sometimes. And then I sometimes think, "Oh well, that's my life." And then I think maybe it'll go away.'""
""And then she looks at me and she said, 'What's it like for you?'" Hoda said. "I go, 'For me?' She goes, 'To have me.' And I said, 'Oh my God.' I said, 'Having you is a big statement from God saying basically, "I gave you the strongest one."' I said, 'So I feel really, really lucky to have you.'""
Hoda Kotb asked her 6-year-old daughter Hope what it is like to live with Type 1 diabetes while reading a book. Hope said the needles hurt and that it hurts her feelings when she cannot have things other kids have. Hope said she sometimes thinks diabetes might go away. Hope then asked her mother what it is like to have her, prompting Kotb to call her a gift from God and say she feels lucky. Hope was diagnosed in 2023, required hospitalization, and Type 1 diabetes prevents the pancreas from making insulin and requires constant monitoring.
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