Yoel Simcha enjoys playing hockey, board games, making up jokes, and spending time with friends
Yoel Simcha is nine years old. Some people call him Yoyo, because when he was a baby, his nurses in the hospital in Toronto had a hard time pronouncing his name, so they nicknamed him Yoyo, and the name stuck! When Yoel Simcha was younger, his family moved from Canada to Beitar Illit in Eretz Yisrael. Yoel Simcha likes the color dark blue, and he likes eating cake and hot peppers (and even beat his Tatty in a hot-pepper-eating contest!). Yoel Simcha enjoys playing hockey, board games, making up jokes, and spending time with friends.
Hi, Yoel Simcha! Can you tell us about your condition?
I actually have a few different conditions, which all affect me in different ways. My conditions are called:
I was born with PCSK1. This condition means that my body does not make some important hormones at all. Hormones are special chemicals in your body that make all sorts of processes happen easily and safely, like growing, and having the right amount of sugar in your blood all the time. My body doesn’t make these hormones properly and that affects lots of things in my body. One of them is my blood sugar dropping too low, which is called hypoglycemia, which makes me feel really yucky. I take lots of medications and get shots every day to help make up for all of my missing hormones.
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