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“I ADVOCATE TO GIVE OTHERS HOPE!” By Jahna Houston I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes eighteen years ago in my 50s. It was surreal. For several years, I watched mom deal with her late-age diabetes diagnosis and I knew how I wanted to handle mine differently while supporting her. Unbelievably, her passing in fall 2019 at age 93 was NOT due to complications of diabetes directly. She was insulin dependent and worked hard to bring her A1C down from 8.1 to 5.8 over a seven-year period. I had always thought that diabetes was a sentence to forbidden foods, possible amputations, blindness, even

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I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at nine years old. This came as a shock to my parents and me, as no one in my family had ever been diagnosed with diabetes. Still, to this day, I am the only person who lives with diabetes in my family. Prior to my diagnosis, I remember feeling sick and being thirsty all the time. When I went to the doctor, they wanted to test me for everything under the sun, from Crohn’s disease to other autoimmune diseases. When I was finally diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, my parents were supportive, ensuring that I ate healthy foods and exercised regularly. My parents