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Faith Friday| Feedback to Our Family's T1D Story

I've been intrigued and immensely blessed by the feedback to our family's T1D (type 1 diabetes) story earlier this week. Even in the horrible that is our normal, God is good. One specific blessing I'll have to write about for you after Easter. Life with God is not immunity from difficulties but peace within difficulties.  - C.S. Lewis Until then, here's a few of the reader comments: No one in America should have to write this story. We will fight until insulin is for all, to all. #insulin4all She nails it-people. My lovely friend Delightstruck Jen shares a story that’s all too common: where you work and how much you make determines the quality of healthcare in your life. In the United States. IN 2019. Why have we blindly accepted that this is the America we must live in? Delightstruck Jen and her family deserve better. We all deserve better. #insulin4all Having an insulin manufacturer in our own backyard, I'm even more disgusted by the greed that...

This Is Type 1 Diabetes In America

Pharma is broken, peeps. U.S. healthcare is broken. Executives and government are all pointing the finger at each other. Nobody wants the blame as to why the system is broken. Somebody is profiting, and that is being put ahead of people's lives. I don't really care who falls on the sword and takes the blame and gets it fixed, just somebody, anybody. Here is a little window into type 1 diabetes in America (T1D). Managing type one diabetes in America is exhausting. Especially if you are a middle class family and on a high-deductible insurance plan through your employer (which 47% of Americans are), oh and you kind of need insulin to... I don't know... live. 2017 photo, nope not school system he works at now So in our little family of four, Coach Man is the type one diabetic. For those of you wondering, that's the type considered juvenile and genetic, and yes onset came when he was young, and no he can't fix it with diet and exercise. However, those things do ...