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      Multiple daily injections users: Do you use a diabetes-specific app on a smart phone to track your insulin dosing? Share what works best for you in the comments!
      I record some in my phone, mentally record some, and take photos of my dexcom serial numbers. It was getting confusing using multiple places. I found a workbook on Amazon that allows me to keep all records for a year in one place. It is a good backup for keeping records and taking it with on doctor appointments. Here is the link if anyone is interested: https://www.amazon.com/Diabetes-Workbook-Journal-Annual-Management/dp/B0BT72XJV8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3QCWJHUYYFVA8&keywords=juli+publishing+diabetes&qid=1685976284&sprefix=juli+publishing+diabetes%2Caps%2C272&sr=8-1
    • 38 minutes ago
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      Multiple daily injections users: Do you use a diabetes-specific app on a smart phone to track your insulin dosing? Share what works best for you in the comments!
      I note my insulin dosage, both long and short term, using the events option in my Dexcom G6 app.
    • 1 hour, 29 minutes ago
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      Multiple daily injections users: Do you use a diabetes-specific app on a smart phone to track your insulin dosing? Share what works best for you in the comments!
      I use an InPen. Tracts my doses and gives report just like a pump. IOB total insulin etc.
    • 2 hours, 51 minutes ago
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      Multiple daily injections users: Do you use a diabetes-specific app on a smart phone to track your insulin dosing? Share what works best for you in the comments!
      I’m looking for an app that reminds me of basal doses that keeps the time static as you change time zones. For example, I recently travelled to London. My normal basal dose is at 8 PM at home but currently 1 AM in the UK. The Apple Health app reminded me to take it at 8 PM London time instead of 1 AM. I really just want an app that reminds me at the same time my body is set at without making me think about it.
    • 3 hours, 11 minutes ago
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      Multiple daily injections users: Do you use a diabetes-specific app on a smart phone to track your insulin dosing? Share what works best for you in the comments!
      I’m looking for an app that reminds me of basal doses that keeps the time static as you change time zones. For example, I recently travelled to London. My normal basal dose is at 8 PM at home but currently 1 AM in the UK. The Apple Health app reminded me to take it at 8 PM London time instead of 1 AM. I really just want an app that reminds me at the same time my body is set at without making me think about it.
    • 3 hours, 59 minutes ago
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      In the past 12 months, have you experienced nausea and/or vomiting as a symptom of high blood glucose levels?
      Echo Mick Martin. Gastroparesis? Try ondonestron (sp?) one of the 10 best medicines ever invented. Also, "a forever learning curve" and "If in doubt, pull it out."
    • 19 hours, 55 minutes ago
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      In the past 12 months, have you experienced nausea and/or vomiting as a symptom of high blood glucose levels?
      "It's a forever learning curve" - so very true
    • 20 hours, 2 minutes ago
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      For pump users: In the past 3 months, have you had issues with insulin delivery due to a bent cannula or occlusion?
      I hesitate to bring this up but I am quite sure this happens more than people realize. I use a tubed pump and small amounts of total daily insulin and have checked the tubing for YEARS for bubbles. YES, they are difficult to "notice" unless you have a good light behind the clear tubing because the insulin is also colorless. I detach and check the tubing in the morning and before bedtime if not before the evening meal...I'm talking about significant bubbles----8-10-or12 inches in length can appear and you would NOT notice them unless you were looking. I wonder how many people wonder why their blood sugar is occasionally high and it's being caused by a significant bubble...NO, not the champagne sized version that's often mentioned to "ignore." The pump company I deal with tried to get me to switch to injections instead but I am an EXPERT with the bubble situation. Also, comments over the years that I am probably not filling the reservoir correctly, etc....just plain silly. I am NOT new at this...LOL!!!
    • 20 hours, 27 minutes ago
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      In the past 12 months, have you experienced nausea and/or vomiting as a symptom of high blood glucose levels?
      I said yes to nausea, occurred with a bad pump site insertion and rising BG over the next 4 hours. I picked it up early w CGM notification and realizing that it was very unusual for me to have rising BG at that time of the day (morning) when on Control IQ pump. The severity was delayed because I had given a breakfast meal bolus via the prior site before the change, so BG was rising after 3 hours, and I knew something was not right. I think this is an important clue for pumpers- when I see people get in trouble w bad sites or insertion failures, the thought process usually is- I just put a new site in, it must be ok- or maybe it does not occur to people that the pump site could have failed--when it should be- did the insertion fail? ----If in doubt, pull it out!----- I pulled the site and could see the cannula was bent, so I know what happened and injected w a syringe, put a new site in, and was better in a 3-4 hours.
    • 1 day, 1 hour ago
      Janis Senungetuk likes your comment at
      In the past 12 months, have you experienced nausea and/or vomiting as a symptom of high blood glucose levels?
      I said yes to nausea, occurred with a bad pump site insertion and rising BG over the next 4 hours. I picked it up early w CGM notification and realizing that it was very unusual for me to have rising BG at that time of the day (morning) when on Control IQ pump. The severity was delayed because I had given a breakfast meal bolus via the prior site before the change, so BG was rising after 3 hours, and I knew something was not right. I think this is an important clue for pumpers- when I see people get in trouble w bad sites or insertion failures, the thought process usually is- I just put a new site in, it must be ok- or maybe it does not occur to people that the pump site could have failed--when it should be- did the insertion fail? ----If in doubt, pull it out!----- I pulled the site and could see the cannula was bent, so I know what happened and injected w a syringe, put a new site in, and was better in a 3-4 hours.
    • 1 day, 1 hour ago
      Richard Wiener likes your comment at
      In the past 12 months, have you experienced nausea and/or vomiting as a symptom of high blood glucose levels?
      I said yes to nausea, occurred with a bad pump site insertion and rising BG over the next 4 hours. I picked it up early w CGM notification and realizing that it was very unusual for me to have rising BG at that time of the day (morning) when on Control IQ pump. The severity was delayed because I had given a breakfast meal bolus via the prior site before the change, so BG was rising after 3 hours, and I knew something was not right. I think this is an important clue for pumpers- when I see people get in trouble w bad sites or insertion failures, the thought process usually is- I just put a new site in, it must be ok- or maybe it does not occur to people that the pump site could have failed--when it should be- did the insertion fail? ----If in doubt, pull it out!----- I pulled the site and could see the cannula was bent, so I know what happened and injected w a syringe, put a new site in, and was better in a 3-4 hours.
    • 1 day, 1 hour ago
      Ahh Life likes your comment at
      In the past 12 months, have you experienced nausea and/or vomiting as a symptom of high blood glucose levels?
      I began playing Pickleball last year in March. When the temperatures started to rise the extra effort my body was experiencing because of the heat got my body hormones out of balance and I began experiencing nausea, higher heart rates and feeling very uncomfortable. I soon realized that I cannot play when is too hot or I’ll end up with ketones. Any new activity when on. Insulin requires adjustments. It’s a forever learning curve. Adding to the heat, last year I was having some absorption problems by the overuse of my abdomen. I have now move the infusion sites to my upper front side and it’s working much better.
    • 1 day, 1 hour ago
      Kristine Warmecke likes your comment at
      In the past 12 months, have you experienced nausea and/or vomiting as a symptom of high blood glucose levels?
      I said yes to nausea, occurred with a bad pump site insertion and rising BG over the next 4 hours. I picked it up early w CGM notification and realizing that it was very unusual for me to have rising BG at that time of the day (morning) when on Control IQ pump. The severity was delayed because I had given a breakfast meal bolus via the prior site before the change, so BG was rising after 3 hours, and I knew something was not right. I think this is an important clue for pumpers- when I see people get in trouble w bad sites or insertion failures, the thought process usually is- I just put a new site in, it must be ok- or maybe it does not occur to people that the pump site could have failed--when it should be- did the insertion fail? ----If in doubt, pull it out!----- I pulled the site and could see the cannula was bent, so I know what happened and injected w a syringe, put a new site in, and was better in a 3-4 hours.
    • 1 day, 1 hour ago
      Becky Hertz likes your comment at
      In the past 12 months, have you experienced nausea and/or vomiting as a symptom of high blood glucose levels?
      I said yes to nausea, occurred with a bad pump site insertion and rising BG over the next 4 hours. I picked it up early w CGM notification and realizing that it was very unusual for me to have rising BG at that time of the day (morning) when on Control IQ pump. The severity was delayed because I had given a breakfast meal bolus via the prior site before the change, so BG was rising after 3 hours, and I knew something was not right. I think this is an important clue for pumpers- when I see people get in trouble w bad sites or insertion failures, the thought process usually is- I just put a new site in, it must be ok- or maybe it does not occur to people that the pump site could have failed--when it should be- did the insertion fail? ----If in doubt, pull it out!----- I pulled the site and could see the cannula was bent, so I know what happened and injected w a syringe, put a new site in, and was better in a 3-4 hours.
    • 1 day, 18 hours ago
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      Have you developed lipohypertrophy due to repeated injections/infusions of insulin? Lipohypertrophy is a term to describe hardened lumps of body fat just under the skin that resulted from repeated insulin injections/infusion sites. If so, share how you’ve handled lipohypertrophy in the comments!
      After 62 years I have skin issues everywhere. I am an avid at rotating every time I change my infusion set. When I was on multiple daily injections, up to 9 per day, I had massive skin hardening. Since on the pump it’s not nearly as bad that’s been 33 years. I take very little insulin my daily basal comes out to 9 units over 24 hours I eat two meals that I count carbs for and try to keep at a minimum of 30-40 per day. Everything is going well. Rotation is key
    • 1 day, 18 hours ago
      Wanacure likes your comment at
      Have you developed lipohypertrophy due to repeated injections/infusions of insulin? Lipohypertrophy is a term to describe hardened lumps of body fat just under the skin that resulted from repeated insulin injections/infusion sites. If so, share how you’ve handled lipohypertrophy in the comments!
      I use a pump and have had issues with insulin absorbtion. It seems I have a lot of them on the side I primarily use for infusion sets. I recently switched to the other side of my abdomen and dropped more than one point on my a1c.
    • 1 day, 19 hours ago
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      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      When I first started with my current Endo we would discuss the released and upcoming products and I would tell her about the 'off-market' applications and devices, we both learned from each other. But she was so good with helping me transition to the Dexcom and then the Tandem after Animas was pulled from the Market. She followed my Dex and even finer tuned my Basals and early this year I got an "unbeleivable" 5.4 A1c and we are both extremely happy!
    • 1 day, 19 hours ago
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      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      Yes. But then I self-selected when choosing an endocrinology clinic that pursues cutting-edge advances 40 years ago. Cutting-edge is a phrase that is also often called bleeding-edge because it is often experimental, hit or miss on results, and very expensive. I am convinced the “bleeding” refers to $$$.
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      Does your T1D healthcare provider suggest new medications or devices that they think would be beneficial to your T1D management during your appointments?
      not anymore, and I am happy about it! Most of the time they were recommending things that had been recently pitched to them by a pharmaceutical salesperson or a durable medical supplier. The doctors would give patients the "free samples" and it was often not the best fit, then after the "free" supply ran out, the prices were exorbitant. Maybe it still happens, but I haven't seen it for a while.
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      If you have never used an insulin pump with automated insulin delivery (also known as a hybrid closed-loop pump), what are some of the reasons you’re reluctant, or obstacles you’ve encountered? Please select all that apply.
      The need for better CGM accuracy is a big consideration for me. Also my control is pretty good right now (a1c in the low 6 range). Although I am tempted by the sleep and exercise modes which would be very helpful since I’m getting back in to exercise. So…I keep sitting on the fence…
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      If you have never used an insulin pump with automated insulin delivery (also known as a hybrid closed-loop pump), what are some of the reasons you’re reluctant, or obstacles you’ve encountered? Please select all that apply.
      I don’t want to change from the Omnipod Dash to Omnipod 5 because the minimum target blood glucose is level is higher than where I like to keep it. My A1C is currently 5.0.
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      If you have never used an insulin pump with automated insulin delivery (also known as a hybrid closed-loop pump), what are some of the reasons you’re reluctant, or obstacles you’ve encountered? Please select all that apply.
      For the last 5 years, the highest HbA1C I've had was 5.3. For the last 3 years the high, low, & average have been 5.2, 4.7, & 4.9. I'm not willing to go to an AID that sets a target of 6 to 7.
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      If you have never used an insulin pump with automated insulin delivery (also known as a hybrid closed-loop pump), what are some of the reasons you’re reluctant, or obstacles you’ve encountered? Please select all that apply.
      I do MDI. For the last 7 years my A1C has averaged around 4.8. I have no reason to believe that a closed loop automated system could do that well.
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      If you have never used an insulin pump with automated insulin delivery (also known as a hybrid closed-loop pump), what are some of the reasons you’re reluctant, or obstacles you’ve encountered? Please select all that apply.
      There are many reasons, as well as "something else." My arthritic fingers do not serve me well with a cell phone. I have trouble putting the needle covers back on to my insulin pen needles. If I had to take care of all the fine muscle issues associated with setting a pump up, I would probably require assistance. I am also not drawn to the issues I hear about tissue damage at the infusion sites, or knowing whether everything is seated properly and the insulin is actually flowing. Finally, I just have some kind of negative karma with electronics. I have worked as a lab biochemist. Somehow, I find the weaknesses of every machine in the lab. (the ideal industrial beta-tester) Having said that, what I hear about the numbers achieved with the tandem CIQ gives me pause to consider.
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      Like others, the "closed loop" runs me too high - even the target bg is too high for me. I use the TandemX2 with BIQ integrated wqith my Dexcom G6. I also appreciate - and use - the temp basal function often. I would lose that with CIQ. L:ike Nilla Eckstrom (I think?) I like to be between 80-90, with maybe up to 120 after I eat.
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    During which month were you (or your loved one) diagnosed with T1D?

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    Sarah Howard

    Sarah Howard (nee Tackett) has dedicated her career to supporting the T1D community ever since she was diagnosed with T1D while in college in May 2013. Since then, she has worked for various diabetes organizations, focusing on research, advocacy, and community-building efforts for people with T1D and their loved ones. Sarah is currently the Senior Marketing Manager at T1D Exchange. Sarah and her husband live in NYC with their cat Gracie. In her spare time, she enjoys doing comedy, taking dance classes, visiting art museums, and exploring different neighborhoods in NYC.

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    38 Comments

    1. Wanacure

      I can’t remember what month, but it for sure was during the school year. Therefore it was NOT June, July, nor August.

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    2. Becky Hertz

      I think June, but it could have been May. I just remember the end of school was a week or two after my diagnosis.

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    3. PamK

      What difference does this make??

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      1. Gary Taylor

        Probably none. If enough people respond, I would suspect that the distribution of answers will be even across the 12 months. However, it is a question of curiosity and kind of fun to know.

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      2. George Lovelace

        I’m with PamK, what difference. I know I went in the Hospital on Mar 20, 1964 but that was when I couldn’t avoid self-diagnosing any longer, I had lost over 20% of my weight. I was just surprised my Parents hadn’t noticed. Dad was a LADA Dxed in 1940

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      3. Joan Fray

        I find people’s stories of their first diagnosis fascinating.

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    4. Gary Taylor

      February, 1976.

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    5. Jim Cobbe

      I answered March which I believe is correct, but I was in the southern hemisphere at the time and don’t have any records from that time (1975); I’m certain it was early autumn, though.

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    6. Lawrence S.

      July, 1977. Still very clear in my mind.

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    7. GLORIA MILLER

      Like most of the others I don’t know the answer. I know it was winter so I’ve always used my birthday in February as marking another year – 65 years this February. I have another long term T1 friend who was diagnosed in May.

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      1. Joan Fray

        So happy to see another long term survivor! You go, girl!

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    8. Jane Cerullo

      Was a bit of a journey. Graduated from nursing school at 54. They diagnosed me with type 2. I knew that was absurd due to weight and no metabolic syndrome. 2 years later got LADA diagnosis. Was a relief. Now it made sense. But don’t remember the month.

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    9. Denise Carter

      March 1, 1971
      But I had been sick for a 3 days prior, vomiting, lethargic, peeing every 5 minutes. I was at a lake cabin with friends and didn’t get hone until Sunday night. Monday am went straight to the doctor, who sent me straight to the hospital. We thought there might be something wrong with my kidneys since I was peeing so much. I list 20 pounds that weekend, and it took a month to be clear of ketones. I felt like death and never wanted to feel that way again so I never skipped a shot during my teenage and adult years. I was 15 at the time of diagnosis.

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    10. Joan Fray

      April 22 1962. Day before my mother’s birthday. She used to say it was the worst birthday present she ever got.

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    11. Nicholas Argento

      For me it was 8-28-1968. I know the exact date because I got my records about 8-9 years ago in preparation of providing proof to the Joslin 50 year medal people. I understand those who would say who cares about the exact date, but to me it represents another milestone, each time I pass that date I am thankful that I have cheated the undertaker for another year. T1D has tried to kill me many times- first by killing my beta cells, many times by severe low blood sugar reactions. In most of those situations, I survived by luck and the efforts of loved ones. I stand honored, humbled, determined, and defiant….

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      1. Joan Fray

        I like that phrase- cheated the undertaker. Better than I beat the devil!

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      2. Jneticdiabetic

        My new fav T1D quote of the year: “I stand honored, humbled, determined, and defiant….” Well said!

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    12. Mark Schweim

      I don’t remember if September 1991 had Labor Day the first or the second Monday, but my T1D was diagnosed in the first week of September 1991. I had been sick frequently the previous 6 to 10 months but every previous time seeing Doctors, they claimed I only had viral or bacterial infections, but I’m sure my T1D was fully established up to 6 months before it was correctly diagnosed!

      When diagnosed, my body weight had dropped from 5 foot 11 inch tall 160 pounds to 5 foot 11 inches tall and only 112 pounds weight. Hospital lab equipment could ONLY register blood glucose up to 1600 and when my blood was tested, their lab equipment only said “HI!!!” meaning over 1600.

      They said all the literature they had available said a Blood Acetone level of 2.5% was considered to be 100% FATAL with survival being IMPOSSIBLE, but when they did the arterial blood draw from my left wrist and tested my blood gasses and acetone levels, my blood acetone level was somewhere over 2.98% acetone so they said based on my blood glucose, I should have been admitted unconscious and immediately placed on life support equipment instead of having actually WALKED into the ER and remaining fully alert and responsive, but based on my Blood Acetone level at diagnosis it should have been completely IMPOSSIBLE for me to be getting admitted anywhere except for the MORGUE since my blood acetone level was nearly 0.5% higher than what was considered to be a 100% FATAL level with survival 100% impossible!!!

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      1. Patricia Dalrymple

        Just goes to show: one size does not fit all. And the more we think we know, the more we have to learn. Congrats to you for proving all those glorious stats WRONG!!

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    13. Joan McGinnis

      I am not sure but 6 mo after c section of my 2nd child but I think June. I never kept track of my anniversary and no one else cared either as I recall then

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    14. Mary Ann Sayers

      August 10th 1954 and I was 7yrs 3mo 21days old. I’m now 74+years old living with a pump and CGM!
      I’ve gone from boiling urine with Benedict solution in a test tube to find out if I’m spilling sugar in my urine and having monthly fasting bgs, then using Clinitest tablets instead of having to boil the testube on the stove!!! (What a great improvement!)
      After years of early morning trips to the hospital for fasting blood sugar testing, I got my first Glucometer! I was then able to check MY OWN BLOOD SUGAR!!! (TALK ABOUT AN IMPROVEMENT!!!😁!!!)
      All this time insulin was changing too. I began with NPH-40 and regular, then NPH-80, and Lantus with fasting regular, and now I use NovoLog in my pump!
      I’ve had a pump on and off for 20 years.
      I now have a “closed-loop” system pump (an artificial pancreas) !!!! Diabetes care has come a long way, baby!

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    15. Natalie Daley

      As a 40th birthday present, I was told I was diabetic. Five years later, after a summer in which I lost weight, peed a lot, and was thirsty all the time, I started 70/30 insulin in September after my A1C was something like 12. The GP told me a few months later, he had no idea what to do with me. His nurse overheard and sent me to an endocrinologist 85 miles away from where I live. None were closer. He became the head of the diabetes center at OHSU. I was lucky. He kept me alive.

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      1. cynthia jaworski

        It is amazing how many GPs don’t think to refer their diabetic patients to an endocrinologist, even while frankly admitting to having no expertise in the field.

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    16. Louise Jesserer

      Halloween 1955! Wish the CURE was here…

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    17. Linda Zottoli

      LOL I think the reason I still remember the month is that at my elementary school, May Day was a yearly big event, with a May Pole and group dances. I remember that my 3rd grade class wrote me letters in the hospital, and some mentioned that upcoming event, one mentioning that “your partner Rex is doing very well without you”. Who Rex was, and whether I got back in time I don’t remember, it was 1955. Memory is a funny thing.

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    18. cynthia jaworski

      November 1962. It took weeks to diagnose, since the GP refused to believe that a child could become a diabetic (too rare!).. His solution was to get mental counseling for my mother, a nurse, since she continued to insist that my symptoms were important. Finally he agreed to do a urine test on me, in order to prove his point.

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      1. George Dear

        Don’t know the month I was diagnosed in but it was 1961 by apparently a competent Dr. I wish I could remember his name. I am now just short of 70.

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      2. Patricia Dalrymple

        I’ve heard you tell this story before. I just have to shake me head. I’m so sorry you had to go through that.

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    19. Barb Robertson

      I was told on my 10th birthday, 8/21/1962…could hardly walk into hospital…weight dropped to 47 lbs…I’m sure I’d been sick for quite awhile before diagnosis

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    20. Sue Martin

      My dad, a doctor, finally got me to take a blood test on his birthday, 3/6/1985, a month after I started complaining I was thirsty all the time. The blood test a few hours after lunch was over 400, He started me on oral meds right away. About 9 months later I needed to go on insulin. Besides remembering his birthday, I mark the anniversary of my diagnosis every year.

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    21. Janis Senungetuk

      Early April, 1955

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    22. Randy Mees

      March 23 1961 was my younger brothers birthday and we gorged ourselves on cake and ice cream. A couple days later I had a bs over 800 and spent the next 10 days in the hospital. 1967 he was diagnosed T1 also, but unfortunately he died in 1992 from complications of T1.

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    23. Ahh Life

      It was 1951 and I was 4. That eliminates Jan, Feb, Mar and most of April. My mom at 97 is currently in the dementia unit of assisted living, so not much help there either. Hospitals in those days, except for Mayo’s and a few others, did not see record keeping, data, and documentation as necessary, treating medical care by metaphor as a “best practice.”

      So I can construct a past or a future, but really have no place to go but the present.

      So I do. Some talk with pejoration of the undertaker and the morgue. Me? I have a personal relationship with the grim reaper. I kick him in the shins every chance I get. And, boy, have I had profuse opportunities. He keeps lowering the scythe and I keep Darth-Vadering him. May the force be with you. (っ-̶●̃益●̶̃)っ ,︵‿

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    24. M C

      In the last part of February I noted in my journal that it was such a strange day – marking down all the liquids I’d consumed since getting up that morning until bed time. I knew something was ‘wrong’ but didn’t dare complain, as I was signed up to go on a school trip to Greece for March break. Spent most of that vacation drinking everything I could get my hands on, and taking something for nausea. By the time we arrived back home, my saliva and perspiration had stopped, I was sleeping, drinking, and using the washroom on a 1 hour repeat! Went to the doctor the day after returning – He told my Mom to get me down to “Emergency – I think she has diabetes”. Once at the hospital – I was diagnosed with T1D – It was March 1977! (But, if I’d spoken up sooner, perhaps it would have been in February instead that I was diagnosed, since it was quite clear, thanks to the journal notation, the actual day “it” hit!)

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    25. Daniel Bestvater

      Diagnosed in March after a bad flu bug. It was the week after my birthday so it will be 45 years March 2022.

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    26. lynda meyer

      I was diagnosed May 1953. I was 4 years old. My regular doctor was out of town, so my mom took me to another doctor in our small town. He said I had a kidney infection (which I probably did). I didn’t get any better so we went to our regular doctor when he returned. He knew immediately and sent me to the hospital. After a few days there, he knew he didn’t know what to do to control my blood sugars. He and his nurse drove me and my mom to Memphis (a 150 miles away) to a specialist. Since then, I have not been in the hospital due to diabetes. I have been truly blessed!

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    27. LizB

      April 1987. It was near the end of the month and it was the last Monday of the month, because my hospital stay extended into May.

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    28. Kristen Clifford

      April 3, 2008, eight days before my 24th birthday

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