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I was 19 months old when I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Living in a small rural town in South Carolina, the medical knowledge for juvenile diabetes was not progressive, so my mother moved north to the Washington, DC, area to bring me to an advanced endocrinologist who specialized in juvenile diabetes. It was determined that my onset of diabetes was from a viral infection. Here I am, 58 years of age, living with other onsets from diabetes like heart disease, hypothyroidism, kidney disease, diabetic retinopathy, neuropathy, and GERD to say the least.
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