In 1994, the Academy Award-winning movie Forrest Gump showed Tom Hanks as the title character running across the country… for seemingly no good reason. Fast forward nearly 20 years and there’s another guy running across the country. This time, he’s doing it in the name of diabetes awareness.
Diagnosed with type 1 at age 3, Doug Masiuk, a 38-year-old computer consultant from Annapolis, MD, has been running the equivalent of a marathon a day since…
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We all dream of giving diabetes a big Chuck Norris roundhouse kick in the stomach, right? Well, 16-year-old Canadian Chase Pelletier and his dad, Dave, are taking out their aggressions on diabetes in a more unconventional way.
Together with the Academy of Martial Arts (AMA) in Ontario, the father-son pair has launched Karate Chops Diabetes, a one-day martial arts extravaganza aiming to raise $250,000 for the JDRF.
During the half-day event on Nov. 24, a…
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AmyT on
October 22, 2012
For many of you, Dr. Nat Strand is a familiar face. That’s because this 30-something anesthesiologist shot to fame in 2010 when she became the first-ever type 1 diabetic to win the reality TV competition The Amazing Race. We interviewed her last year and got the whole back story on why she didn’t bring along a hairbrush on that adventure, among other things.
Today, she is “all over” the diabetes advocacy scene — in print, online,…
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MikeH on
October 19, 2012
When he was just a kid during the ’60s and ’70s, Evan Kramer saw both his older brother and sister diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. But he didn’t learn much about the chronic condition at the time, because his siblings didn’t talk about their diabetes and his parents seemed to shield him from knowing more.
Throughout the years, they also didn’t share much about their D-Lives, so it was, for all practical purposes, an invisible…
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Continuing our series of interviews with the 10 winners of the DiabetesMine Patient Voices Contest that were announced in June, today we’re featuring none other than long-time diabetes blogger and advocate, Sara “Knicks” Nicastro, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 21. Sara lives in Florida and works in higher education administration.
In her contest video, Sara discussed her thoughts on device personalization, like what’s offered by many smartphone apps these days. We…
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