When it comes to diabetes, no place is safe. We have featured folks with diabetes from Spain to Germany to Canada and now we’re traveling across the globe to Australia to hear from Simon, a 35-year-old with LADA.
Simon lives in South Australia where he works in antiques, and despite living in the sixth largest country in the world (and an entire continent!), he’s found that the Australian Diabetes Online Community is pretty small compared…
Thanks to everyone who entered our most recent DMBooks giveaway for Phil Southerland’s new memoir, Not Dead Yet. We had over 45 entries! We’re pleased to announce that the winner is Ninoslav Raskovic — who turns out to be a marathon runner from Serbia!
Ninoslav is 36 years old and has lived with type 1 diabetes for 12 years. He is an accomplished athlete himself, and has finished six marathons and one ultramarathon. Wow!
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We recently launched a series on Diabetes Around the Globe because while diabetes doesn’t discriminate, life with diabetes looks very different depending on where you are in the world. We started off with Mike, a British ex-pat living in Spain, followed by Anke from Germany. Today we bring you Jamie, from the Great White North a.k.a. Canada!
Jamie Naessens lives in a small town in Ontario, and works in Toronto. She’s the mom of a…
We continue with our new series on life around the globe with diabetes! Our first feature was an English PWD living in Spain. Today, we introduce you to Anke, a kindred spirit from Germany who has some pretty unexpected revelations about diabetes in her country.
A Guest Post by Anke Troeder
I’m a college lecturer for public speaking and presentation skills at a small college in northern Germany. I was diagnosed in 2005 at the…
Diabetes doesn’t discriminate — it affects anyone at any age, gender, race, and country… Our hope is to educate on life without diabetes outside the borders of the US, and show that our community is much bigger than we might think.
Today, our guest blogger is Mike Young, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 11 years ago. Although he was born in England and lived in the US for a while, he’s been living…