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
June 15 1968 A Violent Fateful Beginning to a 55+ Year T1D Journey
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This podcast recounts events of a violent, fateful first day in June, 1968, in my 55+ year journey as a Type 1 diabetic. A growing part of the medical community believe that Type 1 diabetes is triggered when a confluence of inherited genes combine with environmental factors, to cause the body's immune system to attack its own pancreatic cells, and terminate its normal functioning. In my case, whether I carried the genes is an open issue. But a key environmental factor is suspected to be the trauma I experienced one day in Chicago during the Summer of 1968. Luckily, the trauma was NOT fatal, only fateful, the consequences I live with comfortably 55 years later.