I was diagnosed at 7 and a half years old at a time when there were no gadgets to monitor blood sugar and syringes were glass and needles were thick, long and painful. The pediatrician was experimenting on me by giving me DBI, a new drug that he replaced one of my insulin injections with. […]

Beginning my 60th year with T1D. Grateful for all the incredible tools we have now to manage this never-ending disease. Hard work to try to be a working pancreas! I’m happy and healthy.

I was 4 days old when they discovered I was a diabetic. My nurse could smell how foul my urine was and smelled the sweetness as well. She got the doctor and they did the testing at that time that was available. I was born at an unwed mother’s home and was being put up […]