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[kirinqueen]

Today, I am 34. On this date in 1995, I started taking insulin to treat the type 1 diabetes I'd been diagnosed with some weeks before. Unlike a lot of diabetics of my acquaintance, I don't know my actual diagnosis date, so I count from my birthday instead. It's a good date to use, anyway, since World Diabetes Day (November 14) falls in the same

Comments

[mollya]

Hey, you. Happy birthday.

[kirinqueen]

:) Thanks!

[gfrancie]

Happy Birthday.
Happy poking?

[kirinqueen]

Thanks! Poking beats the alternative. ;)

[ungulata]

Happy birthday!

[kirinqueen]

Thanks!

[beth_leonard]

Happy Birthday!

I hadn't realized that type I could manifest itself that late. It's not something I've studied.

--Beth

[kirinqueen]

Thanks!

Yep, it can happen at any time, but tends to show up a lot more in kids, for unknown reasons. Autoimmune disorders are weird.

[jon_leonard]

Happy Birthday; best of luck providing medically useful research data. (And we all wish medical research made a progress faster, but the problems are hard.)

[kirinqueen]

Thank you. :) It seems like so often the trouble with medical research is the more we learn, the less we know. So I'm impatient, but that's the way it goes.