Removing Drama from Type 1 Diabetes for 58+ Years
How might you make managing a lifetime with T1 diabetes as simple as brushing teeth?
With more than 58+ years as a Type One diabetic (and still counting) --- no hospitalizations, no complications, no drama, and a little luck, I will share several priorities to help anyone with diabetes to live an enjoyable, active and healthy lifestyle, well into their senior years. Most importantly, you don't have to be "perfect" at these priorities, just be good! Trust me, they work and my life experience is proof positive!
Removing Drama from Type 1 Diabetes for 58+ Years
Episode 2: A Remarkable T1D Journey of 55+ Years, and My Role in It
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Episode #2, Part 2, concludes this segment of the podcast --- “The Juice IS Worth the Squeeze. Embrace It: 55+ Years as a Type 1 Diabetic, and Still Counting”. Part 2 captures more details about the remarkable journey I’ve had being a T1D over 55 years, and more details about the part I’ve played in carrying the journey this far. With a life expectancy when I was diagnosed at age 15 in 1968 being 46 years, I’ve added 25 years to it. I am now a healthy, lucky 71 years old. This journey has been due in part to many medical, scientific and educational breakthroughs in T1D treatment since the early 1980s. But an equally, if not more substantial, part of this added lifespan can be attributable to my following 10 personal lifetime priorities in managing T1D for 55+ years, and making the best use of the breakthroughs I’ve been lucky to be alive during their development. The episode ends with a preview of the next episode --- I call it, “The Ambush”. It recounts an evening in Summer, 1968, in which I was the primary victim of a gang violence incident in Chicago --- no guns, luckily, just a fairly violent physical beating, that less than 3 months later, led to a series of events that triggered my T1D diagnosis.