Multisports athlete Emily Wilson was 22 when she found out she had type 1 diabetes. Six years later, she reflects on how it changed her life for the better.
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When Radio DJ Lee Weir went to a new doctor, who was surprised he’d never had routine blood tests.
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Emily Writes reaches out to other parents of children with type 1.
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Teenager Samantha Williams, from Auckland, reflects on her T1D journey and talks about some of the prejudices she has experienced.
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A diagnosis of type 2 diabetes took software engineer Alan Murray by surprise, but he was determined to see it as a positive.
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Teenager Samantha Williams, from Auckland, reflects on her T1D journey and talks about some of the prejudices she has experienced.
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It took three years and a heart attack before Karen Staveley was properly diagnosed with a slow-onset form of type 1 diabetes.
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Aimee Young’s diagnosis of gestational diabetes came as a shock – so did discovering she had type 1 eight years later.
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After his diabetes diagnosis, former top cop Phil Wright retired early from the New Zealand Police and set off with his wife Jackie on a round-the-world sailing odyssey.
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Ruth Jeffery ticked off another physical challenge when she climbed Mt Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania
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When Andrew Good received an ASB Good as Gold Award for his work with Diabetes Youth, he was surprised and overwhelmed. For him, volunteering has always been about giving back to a community that he says gave him so much as he was growing up.
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I felt the public health system had let me down when Miss Five [daughter Olive] arrived into the world. It all seemed to go horribly wrong.
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I thought being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes was the end of my life but I’ve found it’s actually the beginning of a better me.
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Last year Ben Trollip set himself the challenge of completing a marathon to raise funds for Diabetes NZ. Here he shares his story and some practical tips on how to train for a marathon.
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Dia-preneur Hayley McDonald, 43, from Auckland, set up her own business selling funky medical ID jewellery after her daughter developed type 1 diabetes.
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Grant Bason, 57, from the Bay of Plenty, tells his story.
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Part Three.
After falling sick in Thailand, newly diagnosed Braca, four, returns to New Zealand with his parents and younger sister to the care of Starship Hospital, in Auckland, where they learn how to care for a T1D child.
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Mum-of-five Kim Thompson, of Christchurch, shares how her family helped turn her life around after a shock diabetes diagnosis just before her 39th birthday in October 2017.
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Billie Brown, 12, represented New Zealand at the first World Indigenous Games in Brazil in 2016. She was the youngest of 2,000 participants and is writing a book about her experiences.
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Christina Friedlander stopped eating sugar when she was diagnosed with prediabetes and her blood sugar levels returned to normal. Then she went back to eating the way she used to before her diagnosis.
Guess what happened next?
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