I’m grateful to Manny Hernandez over at TuDiabetes for working to kick off a special awareness campaign this week just for adults diagnosed with what used to be known as “juvenile diabetes.” At the time I was diagnosed, the doctors around me were sure it must be type 2 diabetes. I was in my late ’30s, after all. Never mind that I’d shrunk down to skeletal size and gone into DKA! But I’m getting ahead…
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I’ve been reading up on LADA (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults) lately, and have come to a conclusion: I’m tired of quibbling about the scientific specs. To me, the term means just one important thing: it means I had this whole non-diabetic life until almost age 40, and then suddenly landed in the hospital and was thrust into the lifestyle of a person with type 1 diabetes. It changed everything.
I was too old to…
When I met fellow D-writer Catherine Price for coffee recently, I immediately gushed about everything we had in common: two brunette journalist-types living in the SF Bay Area, both diagnosed a few years ago with LADA (or so I thought). Catherine gave me a sideways look, and then began grilling me about the formal definition of LADA. I had to admit, it’s pretty fuzzy. Today, I gratefully present you with the results of her investigation…
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Andrew Young is a 38-year-old UC Berkeley-educated engineer and experienced finance expert. Meeting him, he looks like the ultimate buttoned-up, left-brained, all-business-and-no-fuzzy-stuff type. WRONG. He’s become so passionate about the psychological struggle of dealing with diabetes, in fact, that he’s devoted his professional and personal life to making an impact where help was sorely overdue, he believes.
[He also has a special surprise in store for diabetic singles. Be sure to read down to the…