Type 1 Type Fun
November 2014. I was 12 years old, fresh and rested from a week off of school for Thanksgiving break. It’s customary for my family to have two Thanksgiving dinners, one at my dad’s house, and one at my mom’s. Everything was fine after the first feast, although I was quite a bit more lethargic than [...]
Country music star Ben Rue shares his diagnosis story and how he learned to handle T1D and the music scene.
“You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man Symptomatic In the months leading up to my [...]
Almost anything can be explained away if you try hard enough. I always joked with my girlfriend in the months leading up to my diagnosis that I had T1D. So when I told her I had it, she didn’t believe me. My cousin, also a type 1, had told me about some of the symptoms [...]
The POD
Pancreas Pals 