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.
Do you have a story to share about your experiences with diabetes? We want to hear from you! Tell us your story using the form below and we'll consider it for inclusion in the CWD Stories section of our website.
Featured Stories
Michelle Hefty
I spent my 12th birthday in the hospital when I was diagnosed. I was told I was very near being in a diabetic coma and extremely dehydrated. I was a walking skeleton that couldn’t make it through a day ay school. I slept all day, and peed 7 times one night. We learned how important […]
Patricia Marn
I was diagnosed at age four in 1969. We had to boil the reusable needles then. I heard the doctor tell my Mom that a life expectancy for Type 1 diabetics was approximately 35 years. I grew up with fear of turning 35. They did not know I understood what they were saying. I’ve now […]
Joseph Levy
Shortly after I became engaged to my (now) wife, I started to have increased thirst and sudden weight loss. In Feb of 1975 a visit to my doctor determined that I had diabetes. Back then blood sugar testing was only done in a doctor’s office. I determined how well I was doing by testing my […]
Emma
From her mom, Kara: Our daughter Emma was diagnosed on October 2, 2014. She was 9 years old. There’s so much I remember about that day but mostly how scared she was when I explained to her that we needed to leave school early after I had picked her up because we needed to go […]
Katie Hodge
I’m grateful to have very few and only mild complications. I went through a significant burnout when I was in college and spent so much time in DKA and ICU, but now I’m stable, married, have a graduate degree, and even carried twins to term with the help of my pump and CGM! Diabetes complicates […]
Maribeth Russell
I was diagnosed on Sept 12, 1975. Four days later, Sept 16, I was admitted to the hospital. That was my 16th birthday. I hit the ground running. I was determined that I would be in control of this disease. It would not control me. 50 years later, that’s still the attitude I live by. […]
Anna Shelton
Ten years ago today was the scariest day of my life! In the third grade at eight years old my life changed completely. I will now have to fight a battle everyday! Everyday I would have to prick myself and give my self shots 8-10 times a day. Seven months after getting diagnosed, I got […]
Dominic Young
On September 23rd, 2014, I was diagnosed with T1D. I was nine years old, and about a month into the school year of being a fourth grader. A month may feel like a lot of time, but in retrospect it goes by quickly. I knew my classmates and peers’ names, and some interests here and […]
Abigail King
The strike of a needle pierced my skin. Fear rushed through my body like a river before a flood. I didn’t know what was going to happen next, but I knew it was going to be the beginning of a totally different life. Insulin. Test strips. Bolus. Needles. Carbs. Nutrition facts. Ketoacidosis. Lows. Highs. Ketone […]
Hannah Myhre
I was very sick in 1999 when I was diagnosed. My dad has had type 1 since he was seven years old and he is 69 years old now. His father had type 1 also. He was born in 1921 and passed away in 2010. My dad, being diabetic, had always bribed my brother and […]
