Every story matters. From the moment of diagnosis to the time you conquered the overnight basal rate to the moment when you realized that the CWD community has your back, every story in your diabetes life matters.
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Featured Stories
Karen Perkins
When my then husband returned from his tour of duty in Viet Nam, we decided to begin thinking seriously about starting our family. I began by locating an OBGYN in Indianapolis where we were living and working in order to get established. At my first appointment the customary urine test revealed my blood sugar was […]
Betty Ann Robinson
I was diagnosed January 16, 1966 at age seven and in the second grade. Those were the days of glass syringes for insulin shots multiple times daily and no glucose testing. Urine tests were thought to be the best way to determine the amount of insulin to take. My mother gave me my shots daily […]
Dr. Jerry F. Hall
My journey has been long and sometimes difficult but extremely rewarding. Type 1 diabetes management has come a long way since 1965 and I am very grateful for the all the developments over the last 59 years. I worked my entire career in the environmental field in the state, federal and private sector retiring after […]
Rayna
Rayna was just shy of turning nine when she was diagnosed. She is very active and is a junior in college. With Type 1 Diabetes, she was able to do the unthinkable and perform a Indian classical dance last July. The performance entailed eight different dances. The show lasted almost thre hours. The amount of […]
Dawn Modest
It’s truly a blessing to be able to say I’ve been on this journey for twenty-five years and I’m still alive and thriving. I was diagnosed on New Year’s Eve and it wasn’t expected at all. I woke up to the ball dropping and cheers on tv while two nurses stood at the end of […]
Michael Berlin
Diagnosed at at age 12, after drinking water by the liter and having blurry vision for over a month. I spent the month of October in the hospital and during the Halloween holiday, volunteers came by the ward all afternoon with candy that my nurse then took away. Back in the ’80s, you needed about […]
Cydney
From her mom, Jessica: My daughter Cydney had a terrible stomach ache and was worn down for several weeks. She was eating and barely sleeping. I watched her grow thinner and thinner. Worried we took her to the doctor. They said come back in a few weeks it’s probably a virus. She grew thinner. After […]
Bradley White
Quite a ride. When first diagnosed, the hospital instructed my mother to boil my reusable glass syringe and reusable stainless steel needle in distilled water each morning for 3 minutes before using. I then took a large dose of long acting insulin and closely monitored my food intake and exercise to match the long acting […]
Malanie Jolicoeur
I was diagnosed with T1D at 32 months old. I do not at all remember any of it. My mom told me my sugar was in the 500s. She had to give me my injections because I was too young to handle it back then. I’ve seen so many changes to treatment and testing over […]
Courtney Titus
I was in the 4th grade when I was diagnosed at age nine — almost 10 years old. For about a week at school I would be constantly using the bathroom, I wouldn’t eat much of my food throughout the day, and at recess I would just sit and do nothing having no energy and […]