Featured Users
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Making Lemonade from Lemons: Meet Kate Beaulieu of Sugardrop Sweetwear
This profile features Kate Beaulieu, a 15-year-old who is already making a difference. Kate has lived with diabetes for 3 years. She resides with her family in Ottawa, Canada. Soon after her diagnosis Kate founded Sugardrop Sweetwear, a line of diabetes awareness clothing and jewelry.
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Running With Diabetes: Don Muchow Runs Across Texas in Fastest Known Time
Don Muchow started running in 2004 after a laser treatment for diabetes-related retinopathy. Running was a cheap way to start being active. Once he got going, he needed a community of other people with type 1 diabetes to learn from and exchange ideas about exercise. He started the Diabetes & Exercise Alliance. In March 2019, with support from that community and his wife, Leslie, Don ran across Texas -- 850 miles in 27 days. He set a FKT by 2.5 days.
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Moving on; New pump, new Jazzercise certification, new motto.
Karen recently joined the Tandem family after using an Animas insulin pump. She's been doing Jazzercise for 27 years and she became certified to teach last November. For many years she’d been thinking about getting certified and it was once she got her t:slim X2 pump with Basal-IQ technology that she felt secure enough with her diabetes management to get it done.
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Why I switched from Open APS to the t:slim X2 pump with Basal-IQ technology
Clayton McCook shares the impact of his wife's cancer treatment on his family's daily life, their daughter Lily's diabetes routine, what they were looking for in an insulin pump, and their perspective on what matters most.
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We searched for an insulin pump that was simple to use
Kim Daniel's daughter Lily was diagnosed with diabetes a month prior to her third birthday. Lily started using an OneTouch Ping insulin pump from Animas about six months after her diagnosis. Years later, they found themselves switching pumps, and were nervous about finding another pump that was as simple to use as the OneTouch Ping, which they had become accustomed to for four years.
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Peace of Mind While Snowboarding with Basal-IQ Technology
After years away from the slopes, Matt Vande Vegte returned. This time with an insulin pump!
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