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As I reflect on my 43 years of living with Type 1 diabetes, times have certainly changed. I grew up during a time when diabetes management and treatment looked drastically different – purified pork and beef insulin pumps were still being used and urine tests for glucose were administered instead of the blood tests that are used nowadays. I was too young to remember being diagnosed with diabetes, but I clearly remember changes I had to make as a result of the diagnosis. At school, I wasn’t able to eat cookies or cake when my classmates brought them in for their birthdays, and the hardest part

“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

2021 marks 27 years of living with diabetes. When I was four years old, I was visiting my extended family like I did every summer. I remember it being a really hot summer and everyone was drinking a lot of fluids to stay hydrated and keep cool. After not acting like myself for a few days, my mother took me to the emergency room so I could get checked out, and because I was peeing so often they diagnosed me with a bladder infection. However, this diagnosis didn’t sit well with my mother, so we visited another doctor to get a second opinion. It was then that I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes

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