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Happy Thanksgiving from your friends at T1D Exchange! Share something T1D-related that you’re thankful for!
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New Diabetes technology!
I am thankful for no complications after 58 years of T1. Also thankful for the improved technology.
I am going to eat in Moderation
I am thankful for the ability or possibility of overcoming the thousands of ankle biters that are fully-employed by technology firms, insurance firms, hospitals, medical practices, lawyers offices, pharmacies, transportation companies, and medical billing agencies. 😶🌫️
I am thankful for T1D Exchange and all the friends who share their thoughts and ideas. It has been very helpful to me to know that I’m not alone.
I am also thankful for Sweet Charlie. I hope Charlie is till out there. And if he is not, I appreciate his memory.
I have completed 78 years with Type 1, and I do not have any serious diabetes related complications. I am very thankful for that!
I.I’m glad to be alive in a time where diabetes has such awesome treatment options. I’m thankful for insulin and my Care team.
Dexcom, Tandem and The Juicebox Podcast. I’ve learned so much listening to that podcast. If you haven’t listened give it a try, you won’t be sorry! Start with the Diabetes Pro Tip series. It really helps you understand and dial things in for tighter control.
Grateful for all the technology available.
Insulin, CGMs, Pumps, technology in treatment for us Type 1s. There’s been lots of changes in my 41 years . Fighting a Good Fight everyday.
I’m thankful for my automated insulin delivery system: Taandem t:slim X2 and Dexcom G6 transitioning to G7 CGM.
I am thankful for inhalable Afrezza for allowing fewer injections and healing scar tissue from previous injections.
There are a few things I’m thankful for. First having T1D keeps me from overindulging. I made keto rolls. Hope others like. Second I wear a CHM and people comment. Gives me a chance to educate people. Most do not understand difference between types one and two.
I’m so thankful for my Tandem pump and Dexcom CGM. They are a lifesaver!
Better technology to manage diabetes. Praise be to God!
I’m thankful for my family who support me as a diabetic especially my husband who shares my CGM data & tolerates all the alarms. I am thankful for CGMs & that my insurance pays for it. I am thankful for my insulin pump which gives me better control. Thankful to be alive & otherwise healthy.
I am so thankful to all who have taken me from glass syringes and urine testing in 1967 to today’s diabetic world of pumps and sensors. It has been quite a journey and I am grateful to still being able to continue on it. 🙏
My Medtronic 780G pump!
My friends over on FUD forum. 😀
I am thankful for my libre cgm. I am also thankful for all the unexpected bits of luck that have come my way.
Thankful for the magical algorithm of Medtronic’s 780G and all of the ever evolving and improving technology that has helped keep me healthy & complication free for 44 years.
Insulin and my Dexcom. They both keep me alive, healthy, and feeling as normal as possible.
CGM technology. When I was dx’d in 1983, not only did the insulin suck (Regular/NPH) so that you had to regiment your whole life around it, but even finger-stick meters weren’t a thing yet. Of all the changes since then–including better, faster-working insulins you can dose to fit what and when you want to eat, insulin pumps, etc.–for me CGM is easily the most life-changing. Even if God forbid I had to go back to MDI with R/N I could manage it in a way that just wasn’t possible back in the day.
I’m Thankful for my CGM and insulin and also for everyone who shares their experience and advice.
An Endo that’s on top of the latest technologies and works with me for what works for me. Annnnnd Afrezza! complete game changer for tightening up my control.
Most thankful for my Dexcom. No more finger sticks!
Medtronic 780G!
My twins I’m very Thankful for them and the support they gave me even at a early age just never giving up on me even though at times I wanted to give up on myself. I am also thankful for everyone in this community who has never given up and cares about still progressing to a cure. Bless you all and Happy Thanksgiving.
Complication-free 71 years after T1D diagnosis. Praise God!
Access to excellent medical care. Also, I was most thankful for glucose monitors when they became available in the early 80’s. When I was diagnosed with T1D in 1966 there wasn’t any way to test BG unless you peed on a reagent strip; this wasn’t very accurate at all. Now, I have access to CGM and insulin pumps. Very thankful for all the new technology we have access to today.
Thanksgiving Blessings to all. I am very thankful for all the advances in management of TD1. Life has been so much better than when I received TD1 diagnosis 35 years ago.
dexcom
No kidding!!!!!!!
I was part of an early CGM sensor trial in 1975. It took 20 years to make it a reality.
I’m very thankful for all the knowledgeable, compassionate people and the many advances in technology that have enabled me to reach 68 years of life with T1.
I am thankful for all the advances in dealing with Type 1. A lot has improved since my diagnosis in 1980!
I’m thankful that at age 60 I still have no diabetic retinopathy!!!
I am thankful everyday to be alive that my pump and CGM are integrated and run from my smartphone.
I am THANKFUL for family, friends and health. A roof over my head a a refrigerator with food in it. I am Thankful to God for His provision.
Insulin!!!!!
I’m grateful that I’ve lived a good life with 51 years of T1D. I’m grateful for the new technology as well.
The advancements in technology. We’ve come a long way since I was diagnosed in July 1985!!!!
I am thankful that I live in an era where we have so many ways to control diabetes.
Technology!
My doctor and diabetes educator. I’m thankful I found a good caring team of professionals, just amazing people!
I am thankful that I got up this morning and every morning!!! Thought I would die by 75, am now 84!!!
I am thankful for all of you! Your insights and experiences have helped me. I’m thankful for incredibly intelligent and gifted doctors, PAs, and nurse educators.
I am grateful for the kindness of strangers, understanding, and amazing advances in medications and technologies. I am grateful for the people who keep up with all the changes and break it down so that I can understand it, too.
Thank you!!!
I’m thankful for helpful information that helps me live wisely with T1D
I love living with a CGM and a pump!
I am thankful that I have insurance to cover all of my diabetes supplies 100% except my insulin which only costs me less than $20 per month. I am thankful for my diabetes P.A. who really seems to keep up on diabetes research. Also glad I have been living 50 years with diabetes and am still healthy.
Also, I am thankful to all the diabetic people who have taken a place in clinical trials. Without them, CGMs and pumps would not be available to all of us.
Insulin and all the research from Banting and Best until today.
I am grateful for the DIY Loop, iAPS and Nightscout (do it yourself) communities and the very smart and dedicated folks that create, update and support these amazing automated insulin delivery algorithms and apps. “We are not waiting.”
I am thankful for Technology!! My mother started this journey with my brother in 1969. I remember her sterilizing glass syringes, I remember eating every meal and every snack at a set time every day, I remember helping her run a test with a test tube and a tablet that changed color. Science has come a long way and I am thankful for that. I raised to 2 T1Ds without a CGM and my oldest didn’t start pumping until he was 13, my youngest at age 5. I myself have been diagnosed as 1.5 for 7 years now. Life is so much easier now!! And for that I am thankful!
Thankful for use of a pump with control IQ as it relieves me some of the constant concern it takes with that to manage blood sugar in range. There are still things that are difficult like accidentally giving your self 10 instead of 1 unit. Not really oump fault but human errors
I’m grateful I was diagnosed at a very young age: 6. This is a lifestyle I grew up with, not a major change I had to make in my life. For that, I feel I’m healthier than many of my non-diabetic friends and relatives, as I had to pay attention to my health from a very early age. 🙂 I’m also grateful it’s T1, not T2, as my insulin can help me sneak in some sugary or high carb foods at times if I plan it right.
Happy Thanksgiving! I am thankful for my parents taking such good care of me back in the “stone ages” of T1D – – glass syringes and urine sugar testing! Thanks to them, I have survived for 59 years with T1D and have no complications! 🙂
My Medtronic 780g and it’s technology
My life. T1D has taught me how to live mindfully and to take care of myself physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Thus I am much healthier than many other Baby Boomers, and even people of younger generations, who haven’t been so blessed to live a life with T1D. I consider T1D as a blessing in disguise and I am grateful that it has been a guiding force in my life.
All the improvements in technology, especially insulin pumps & CGMs, since I was diagnosed 47 years ago. Even after all these years, I am still thankful I don’t have to put up with urine testing, multiple injections or finger pricks.
Happy Thanksgiving, I am thankful not to be dead from T1D. I am thankful for medical advancements to make it not so stressful at the doctor’s office when most tests can support my claims. Thankful to meet other people who also have this stress. Thank you everyone for sharing. Now, to go cry because the cheesecake looks amazing, and I am already at a high reading. Food Holidays Are the Worst.
There is absolutely nothing for or by which I have any gratitude in terms of diabetes. With regret, you do not befriend a lethal and dangerous enemy….
Thankful for T1D. Saved my life. I was in the PERL study and had regular blood draws. It was noticed that my Hbg and Hct kept increasing. After some tests it was found that there was a tumor on my left kidney. Said kidney and tumor removed. Stage 3B.
I’m thankful to have a good endocrinologist
Thankful for insulin so my daughter can live! Thankful for medical engineers so we can have blood glucose readings, trends, and life-saving alarms!
I am thankful for the advances in medical technology and knowledge about how the immune system works.
I’m thankful for my CGM, and for those who keep an eye ot for me.