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Nikki lives with type 2 diabetes—and thrives, despite her diagnosis and her experience with several diabetes-related complications. My name is Nikki and I am a type 2 diabetic of seven years. For the last two years, I've spent my New Years’ Eves in the ICU battling acute pancreatitis, sepsis, and ketoacidosis. I treat every day as a blessing and a gift, as each hospitalization was worse than the last. As such, I've vowed to train for a marathon to run in honor of the American Diabetes Association and have also raised $1,000 in donations. Additionally, I am an avid Disneyland 'resident.'

The ADA, represented by Safe at School Director Crystal Woodward, is a long-standing member of the Virginia Diabetes Council (VDC), a volunteer-led diabetes organization that advocates for diabetes prevention, management, and healthier lifestyle choices for Virginians. VDC’s School Working Group, representing a collaboration of ADA, school nurses, diabetes providers, and state agencies, gathered at the Fairfax County Health Department on February 13 to develop standards for the use of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) in Virginia schools. Robust and strategic stakeholder discussions resulted

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Patricia is a Pilates instructor living with type 1 diabetes. Though she has experienced diabetes-related complications, she has refused to let them keep her down. For the last 17 years, I have been without one eye. I wear a prosthetic eye hand-painted to "look normal" during the day. Type 1 diabetes has stolen my vision. My parents were sure that I must have had type 1 diabetes as a child. My mother developed gestational diabetes when she was pregnant with me, then became a type 1 insulin-dependent diabetic a few years later. She died at 69 from diabetic complications, though she always had

Patricia is a Pilates instructor living with type 1 diabetes. Though she has experienced diabetes-related complications, she has refused to let them keep her down. This is her story: For the last 17 years, I have been without one eye. I wear a prosthetic eye hand-painted to "look normal" during the day. Type 1 diabetes has stolen my vision. My parents were sure that I must have type 1 diabetes as a child. My mother developed gestational diabetes when she was pregnant with me, then became a type 1 insulin-dependent diabetic a few years later. She died at 69 from diabetic complications, though

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Marsha, from Birmingham, Alabama, was diagnosed with diabetes at age 28. This is her story: I became very ill at the age of 28 years old. I was rushed to the hospital. The ER doctor rushed into my room and asked if I knew that I was diabetic. I did not!!! I had no idea what diabetes even was, but over that one-week span of being in the hospital in ICU on an insulin drip/IV, I quickly learned about a disease that would take precedence over my life. I was sent home with a ton of information and a ton of medicine, such as two different types of insulin, several needles, booklets of how I should

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