Video: Kirsten
Contributor: Kirsten
Connection: Living with type 1 diabetes
Quote: “After four years, they finally realized that I *can* do this – and I could have a GPA better than all of them.”
Archive for the ‘College’ Category
#DWontStopMe: Hayley
” I’m a junior at Northwestern University, studying Industrial Engineering and Industrial Design. I’ve had Type I Diabetes since age 2, but that hasn’t slowed me down. These are my hopes and goals.”
Video: Kim
Contributor: Kim; @txtngmypancreas
Connection: Adult with type 1 diabetes; creator of the You Can Do This Project
Quote: “If you’re having a tough time living with diabetes, I totally get that. But I also want you to know that even when it gets super tough, you can bounce back from that. Talk to people – you won’t want to, because you won’t think they’ll ‘get it’, but you need to. I wish I had.”
Video: Chris
Contributor: Chris; tobesugarfree.com
Connection: Adult with type 1 diabetes
Standout Quote: “”[Diabetes] is a very personal disease, but that doesn’t mean it has to be a one man or one woman army fighting this battle. There’s a community that […] wants to help and offer support, because doing this by yourself is pretty miserable.”
Video: Michael
Contributor: Michael
Connection: Person with type 1 diabetes
“Michael V. diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes 6/30/97 shows what you can do with diabetes through his photos.”
Video: Scott
Contributor: Scott; rollinginthed.wordpress.com
Connection: Person with type 1 diabetes
Standout Quote: “There are people in the diabetes online community who are not living the guidelines of living with diabetes – but they’re living it. I mean they’re really LIVING life. It’s so empowering [to see]. I don’t see diabetes as an opponent; I see it as a bad roommate. I’m stuck with you; you’re stuck with me. We don’t really like each other, but we make the best of it.”
Video: Jennifer
Contributor: Jennifer; @datangeL82
Connection: Person with type 1 diabetes
Standout Quote: “”My grad school education cost less than the four days I spent in the hospital for DKA. […] Diabetes is difficult, but just take it one day at a time… nobody does it perfectly.”
Video: Kari
Contributor: Kari; delightfullydiabetic.wordpress.com
Connection: Person with type 1 diabetes
Standout Quote: “I have undergone dozens of [retinopathy] treatments on both eyes, but despite my diabetes and despite the retinopathy (which is now almost completely under control), I’m living a successful and fulfilling life. I’ve taught first grade for the past two years, and in September I will begin teaching third grade. I’ve begun graduate school and I have a wonderfully supportive boyfriend [Editor’s note: now fiancé!] who cares just as much about my diabetes management as I do.”
YOU CAN DO THIS PROJECT 