Welcome again to our ongoing series about living with diabetes around the globe. We’re very excited to bring you this special account of life in the United Arab Emirates by Aisha AlQaissieh, a 25-year-old native of Abu Dhabi, the capitol of the country, where she works at her family’s business. Aisha was diagnosed with type 1 at age 12 and struggled with her diabetes for a few years before becoming a patient at the UAE’s…
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According to the World Health Organization, diabetes affects 285 million people. Since we know they don’t all live in the United States, we have been (virtually) traveling around the world to learn what life with diabetes is like elsewhere, visiting countries like Spain, Serbia and England.
Today, Margot Vanfletern, a 17-year-old student living in Belgium who’s had type 1 diabetes since she was two-and-a-half years old, shares what it’s like in her country. Margot lives…
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Diabetes is certainly not created equal, and it’s even more varied when you take into account the various ways countries manage their health care system. Over the past few months, in our new international series, we’ve peeked into the lives of PWDs in Spain, Germany, Canada and Australia, and this month we’re taking a hop across the pond to visit Becky Thomson, a resident of the United Kingdom (which of course encompasses England, Scotland, Wales…
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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…
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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…
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