Tag: type1
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Christmas Counting
This is a long post, but it recalls a long day which has lasted fourteen years so far. This week marks the fourteenth anniversary of my youngest daughter’s T1D diagnosis (aka “diaversary”). Fourteen years ago, progress to a cure seemed so close that we were told that a cure was…
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A Parent’s Target Number
Yesterday was World Diabetes Day. My youngest’s Type One diagnosis eight years ago has brought so much change. The grueling management of the disease not withstanding, the T1D community and our friends and family have been of such immeasurable support and encouragement. Nevertheless, it is a looming gravitational force in…
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The high cost of living with diabetes
Diabetes is a costly chronic condition in the United States, medi- cal costs and productivity loss attributable to diabetes were es- timated to be $245 billion in 2012.1 In this issue brief, for indi- viduals covered by employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) and younger than age 65, per capita spending for people…
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