An ex-patriate Canadian now living in the US with my American husband, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 37 years old and just celebrated my 25th anniversary with diabetes - and yes, I mean celebrated. I would not wish this condition on anyone, but since I have it, I determined early on to learn as much about it as I could so that I was the one in charge, not the diabetes. It is a constant challenge and sometimes I am not always the one on top, but after 25 years I am in good health, active, alert with no known or identified complications and managing my diabetes with an insulin pump and a cgm. I have come a long way from learning how to inject insulin into an orange and figuring out how much I can eat by measuring the volume of food against my hand:-). I have never let my diabetes interfere in living my life - I just try to do what I need to do to make sure it doesn’t cause me too many problems along the way:-). It is good to be here among a community of those who understand what it means to live every day trying to duplicate an automatic body function without a hope of doing it nearly as well as a healthy pancreas, but knowing it really is the only game in town now.