In January of this year, I reached 40 years of living with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Over that time, I’ve learned a lot about managing T1D and have been able to get results that satisfy me for some years now. What that means in numbers for the folks who want […]
Hypoglycemia
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The following is a lightly edited version of a patient testimonial I wrote in December 2014. I wrote it to include as a required element of a letter of intent package for a research network funding application to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research. At the […]
Me, a few years pre-diagnosis: I was diagnosed with diabetes 33 years ago yesterday. I spent a month living in Pasqua Hospital in Regina, Saskatchewan, injecting insulin into an orange, making friends with a little girl with leukemia, and missing school desperately. When I went home, I took Toronto & […]