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  A Brave Girl Beating The Odds and Urging Others To Recognize Type 1 Diabetes Symptoms   June 2015, Father’s Day weekend. That’s when I first noticed something was seriously wrong. I watched my then 6 year old, chug bottle after bottle of water, pee 3 times an hour and beg for more to drink. […]

My fitness journey started around 6 years ago at the age of 18. I had recently started my degree at a university and decided to join the local gym as they were offering a great price for new students. It would be inside this very gym that my life would change forever. The first time […]

My Journey From Gestational Diabetes to Type 1 Diabetes Being a mother has truly given my life meaning, in more ways than one! On my journey through my first pregnancy, I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes, the one that goes away right? Well in many cases, I had believed this as so. When my daughter […]

Living Every day With a Smile On My Face: (Living Every day With a Smile On My Face) Living Every day With Diabetes : With A Smile On My Face Before I was 12 years old I really had no idea what diabetes was. I knew it was illness, but all I thought it meant […]

Living Life With Diabetes: (Guest Post) Living Life With Diabetes:   I remember the night I was diagnosed pretty well considering it was over 30 years ago. Yep, I’ve been living life with this diabetes crap for 30+ years and I miraculously haven’t killed anyone yet. You see I tend to be somewhat of a […]

Diabetes Doesn’t Stop Me From Living A Fulfilling Life Diabetes Doesn’t Stop Joanne From Living A Fulfilling Life “Are you familiar with diabetes?” I remember a doctor asking my mom as I lay in the ER during the summer of 1995. I was a 21-year-old college student who was trying to imagine a life ahead […]

Guest Post: Diagnosed Diabetic: “How I Embraced My New Life” Diagnosed Diabetic: How I Embraced My New Life I was diagnosed diabetic at the age of 11. I had been losing weight and sleeping a lot over several months. One night my breathing got really bad. I remember waking up and going to the kitchen […]

Life’s an Adventure: I remember the day when I started on my new life adventure. I remember the day I was diagnosed like it was yesterday. It was a hot summer night in mid-July. I was 8 years old at the time. My family was sitting around the dinner table when my pediatrician called. “You […]