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This page shares my "diabetes story", ultimately leading to the great success I have found with a low carb and low insulin approach to diabetes management. That success prompted the creation of my website, D-solve. My story starts when I was 4 years old and got seriously ill -- my folks remember me having a pretty serious virus just previous to discovering the high blood sugars that had come with the onset of Type 1 diabetes.

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  • This page shares my "diabetes story", ultimately leading to the great success I have found with a low carb and low insulin approach to diabetes management. That success prompted the creation of my website, D-solve. My story starts when I was 4 years old and got seriously ill -- my folks remember me having a pretty serious virus just previous to discovering the high blood sugars that had come with the onset of Type 1 diabetes.
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  • This page shares my "diabetes story", ultimately leading to the great success I have found with a low carb and low insulin approach to diabetes management. That success prompted the creation of my website, D-solve. My story starts when I was 4 years old and got seriously ill -- my folks remember me having a pretty serious virus just previous to discovering the high blood sugars that had come with the onset of Type 1 diabetes. My mom tells me of her outrage when talking to a nurse over the phone and discussing my symptoms -- frequent urination, vomiting -- and the nurse telling her, "It sounds like diabetes." My mom was outraged that the nurse dared to guess at such a major diagnosis over the phone. Well, it turns out the nurse was right. I spent about a month in the hospital while they constantly tested my blood sugars with many finger sticks -- and when the blood went dry, toe and heel sticks. My Dad tells me of a time when a nurse came in -- by this time the only thing I knew about nurses was that they used needles to cause pain -- and I launched a toy fire truck at her. Perhaps even at the young age of four, the events during that hospital stay helped shape my scepticism of the medical establishment, which resurfaced constantly through my teenage years, my twenties, and now again in my early thirties. I should make it clear that I don't ever remember not having diabetes. Maybe this is a good thing, as I can't lean on memories of not having the disease, which would only bring me down about my present situation. In the end I think having the disease has shaped many dimensions of my personality. I deplore all things that I label as "hassles", since that is how I viewed diabetes growing up. Having to pause before a meal to inject, testing blood sugars, and counting what nutrients went into my body were all considered hassles, so I slowly tried to make my life otherwise hassle-free.
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