The video opens with a bright, sunny aerial shot of a colorful playground. A blue banner appears in the lower-left corner with white text. Upbeat, gentle music begins plays throughout.
On-screen text: Minneapolis
The video cuts to a young girl with reddish-blond hair and sunglasses sits at the top of a bright green slide, smiling. She slides down, her hair blowing in the wind. Her mother, a woman with long brown hair, pushes her gently on a swing. The mother laughs happily.
Kate Solberg: Opal is almost three years old. Very spunky, and she's the love of my life.
The video cuts to the girl, Opal, laughing on the swing, her hair blowing across her face. A close-up shot shows her smiling broadly, revealing her teeth. Her father, a man with short brown hair and glasses, begins to speak.
Kyle Solberg: She has a huge personality. She loves making people laugh.
The video cuts to Opal, in a purple jacket, running playfully down a sidewalk next to her twin brother, who wears a red Spider-Man hat. The scene cuts to a photo of the red-headed twins sitting on concrete steps in winter jackets, smiling at the camera. The video returns to the parents sitting together on a brown couch for an interview. A blue banner with white text appears.
Kate Solberg: Opal loves being with her brother. They are twins. Twins are crazy. Toddler twins are a next level. Otis, we call him a silly boy.
On-screen text:
Kyle & Kate Solberg, Opal's parents
Kyle Solberg: We live in a state of chaos. A lot of the time we're just trying to keep up.
The video cuts to the playground, Kyle helps Opal across the monkey bars. She hangs from a bar, smiling. Kyle's expression becomes serious as he speaks.
Kyle Solberg: And then adding Opal's diagnosis into the mix was a huge earth-shaker. Right? It really changed things for us.
The video cuts to a photograph showing Opal as a much younger toddler, asleep in a hospital bed with an IV in her hand and a teddy bear next to her.
Kyle Solberg: One morning, I woke them up to get out of bed, and Opal was shaky, her lips were blue, her speech was a little bit slurred. So we immediately scheduled an appointment with her pediatrician. We got a call from the pediatrician, and he said, "I'm so sorry, but I think it's Type 1 diabetes."
The video shows a photograph of Opal lying on her father in a hospital bed. It then cuts to Kate interviewing.
Kate Solberg: I was in disbelief when he told me the diagnosis. The weight of it felt so heavy when I first found out.
Kate Solberg: What does this say?
Opal: We go to the zoo!
The video cuts to shots of Opal and her parents at a table.
Kyle Solberg: It's been almost a full year of pokes and prods, and she's been strong through the whole thing.
Kate Solberg: It's full on. It's 24 hours. It's all day every day.
A close-up shot shows a continuous glucose monitor sensor attached to Opal's upper arm.
Kate Solberg: Opal wears a continuous glucose monitor on her arm, and then she has an insulin pump on her leg.
The video cuts to Kyle and Kate interviewing on the couch. The it cuts to a photo of Opal in a hospital bed wearing sunglasses.
Kyle Solberg: Monthly bills are already overwhelming. To add all of Opal's prescriptions on top was even further overwhelming.
Kate Solberg: When Opal was in the hospital, a thing that was running in the back of my mind was, how much is this gonna cost?
The video cuts to a blue screen with white text over a photo of Opal sleeping in the hospital bed.
On-screen text:
Opal's family received a grant from the UnitedHealthcare Children's Foundation to help cover her prescriptions and treatments.
The video cuts to a family photo that shows Kate and Kyle standing on a rocky shore by the water, each holding one of the smiling twins. Kate Solberg: When we received the grant from United Healthcare Children's Foundation, it felt like a relief. I felt like, "Whew, like we don't have to worry about that."
The video cuts to Opal hanging from a playground bar and then climbing a small green rock wall. She slides down a slide again, this time without her sunglasses, and runs across the playground.
Kate Solberg: Right now she will run around with her friends and say, "I have diabetes!" She reminds me that I should be grateful for things that I didn't otherwise think about before her diagnosis.
The video cuts to the park, Kyle lifts Opal up to the monkey bars.
Kyle Solberg: If you view Opal as, like, tough as nails physically, mentally, and like just her personality, this will be a condition she has for the rest of her life, but that doesn't make who she is.
The video cuts to Opal climbing a rock wall. The family of four plays together on the playground equipment.
Kyle Solberg: I don't think that Type 1 diabetes will limit what Opal can do at all. I think she's gonna be a champion for Type 1 growing up.
The video dissolves to a white screen with the UHC logo. Blue text appears. The music fades.
On-screen text: UHC
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