Very well done. I'm feel like anewbie now with only 39 years in. I'm curious how many old timers with type 1 use a pump versus MDI therapy. Just went on the punp, a Ping and am uncertain if this is the way to go. I had good numbers on shots and didn't have to be hooked up to the "Machine" Once again great work on doing fifty.
Beagle
Congrats T1 ...wonderful to read this ...2 Tu members celebrating at same time : YOU and TERRIE ( who posted here as well ) ...happy retirement too .
I am on my fourth pump, so about 12 years. Endo had to do a lot of convincing, but now I will never go back. Also have a CGM which I love, except on the days I have to change the sensor.
Congratulations! People like you are an inspiration for me. I've been T1 for only 21 years, and it feels like forever...(well, I am only 32 so it's been about 2/3 of my life...). I have been lucky with my health so far, but sometimes I have to wonder when the other shoe is going to fall. However, seeing that you and others have been T1 for 50 years or more makes me realize that I can be healthy for, perhaps, much longer.
Good luck for the future,
JB.
Thank You for putting this up, I have had diabetes for 20 years, so far so good but as I get older I feel like I am on borrowed time - it's just a fear in the back of my head of what could happen even though I am completely healthy today. It's my First day on this website and I hope to see more posts like this!
Congratulations!
I'll be 49 years on December 28th. I've just started following Diabetics on line and it's all very interesting. What's the award/recognition everyone is talking about at 50 years. My Mom and Dad are still very much alive (I was 2). What should they do to verify?
Best and many many more to you.
Hey, I was nine--talk about forever in your life!?! The shoe does not have to fall. I have only had some retinopathy--easily lasered, As I say, Keep On Keepin On, Brianna!!!
It is from the Joslin Clinic. Since 1975, they have only awarded 3000 medalis to those who have been insulin dependant for a long period of time. They do a great deal of good research, using the longtimers. It is a great cause and will help us all. Here is the link to basic information:
http://www.joslin.org/diabetes-research/medalist_program.html
Hope you get going NOW and not wait like I did. I think I felt Dad would live forever.
Best wishes, Michael. Let us know what happens, PLEASE!
The Joslin medal for anyone who has survived for 50 or more years is worth trying to get. Two page application form available on the internet at the site previously listed by another member. You need some sort of verification as to when you were diagnosed. Since in so many members lives hospital records from that long ago aren't available any more they will accept letters from 2 friends or relatives if they have some sort of a reasonably verifible date in them(birth of a child for example)
Got mine in Feb.2011- 2 years later than it should have been because I didn't know about it before I found this internet site.
Was diagnosed before my 3 birthday in Nov. 1958. Now belong to a rather exclusive club- diagnosed under age 3 and survived slightly longer than 53 years. Not many members in this fraternity"
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
I wasa diagnosed at age 3 (approx) I was actually able to get a hold of one of the doctors - in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa where I was living and where I was diagnosed. The doctor remembered telling me that I wouldn't live past 30 !!!
Well here I am, 58 years later....and I still have all my arms legs fingers toes.....eye sight...kidneys.....
So I wish you many, many, many healthy years ahead - and don't listen to what the doctors say !!!
Sheila
Unforunately, I have no one left to write verification letters. Only my cousins and they don't remember. Kind of breaks my heart a little. It would have been nice.
Great job T1F!! You inspire me and many others here.
Congrats to you! I love to hear that. I met a guy, in a baskin robbins of all places, who was 73 years old and had had diabetes for 50 years. That was several years ago now, but it made a huge impression on me. I think before that I didn't really think it was possible for there to be a 75 year old me.
II know I'm late but CONGRADS!!! Your one of my hero's THANK YOU for what u done to make it a little easierfor me when I was diagnosed with Type 1 in 73. Yes there's been sooooo much teconal stuff (some of it goes over my head 4 sure) in helping those with diabetes.
When I was diagnosed, the local newspaper carried notices of hospital admissions etc. (Long before health privacy laws!). Any chance of finding this in your hometown's newspaper archives?
Wow, Tim, I'm glad you posted this. :) I had forgotten all about it. :( It might help in my search for something, from 1967. Thanks for a reminder that was long gone.
Trisha
Hey T1,
Congrats!, although belated.
Trisha
Thank you so much for sharing this. When I was diagnosed (22 years old, 6/3/11) the doctor spent a solid 3 hours telling me how broken I was - he wanted to prepare me I guess. So hearing stories like your's - that this hasn't beaten you, that you have survived- that you have lived with this disease for so long, is very encouraging. Honestly, thank you.
Thanks.