Cody: Feeling more human

Life with T1 “Life-changing” is how people who live with type 1 diabetes often describe the switch to continuous or flash glucose monitoring. Each of them has a story. This is university student Cody Brinsdon-Hall’s.

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Golf’s Longest Day: 90 holes, 5 rounds of golf, and $3,000 raised

Being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes was the start of a new experience, like the start of a new round of golf

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Brianna: Raising thousands for CGM funding for children

Teenager Brianna Veale turned her frustration with uninformed comments about her type 1 diabetes into action, awareness and money.

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Iain: Ultra running with Type 1 and raising money for diabetes

Diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at 37 years old, Iain MacDonald is competing in the Tarawera 102km Ultramarathon in February 2022 as a way of testing his body to its absolute limit, physically, mentally and ‘diabetically’.

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Dame Valerie Adams: What my son’s diabetes diagnosis taught me

Dame Valerie Adams was busy training for the Olympics when her son, Kepaleli, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.

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Ben: Cape Reinga to Bluff on two wheels

Ben Mitchell spent a month cycling solo from Cape Reinga to Bluff to raise money for Diabetes NZ. He didn’t find out till he was almost finished that his wife Beverley – who lives with type 1 – had been keeping a secret that would have sent him rushing home.

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Athena: The real gold

For six weeks, Celebrity Treasure Island contestant Athena Angelou raised awareness of diabetes, while entertaining viewers with her energy and warmth.

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Vince and Abby: A song about parents and children

Vince Harder and Abby Lee Harder’s new song – ‘Overwhelmed’ – is their most personal yet, and its video, produced in partnership with Diabetes NZ, is a heartfelt plea for continuous glucose monitors to be funded.

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Jessica: I am grateful, I am blessed - a life with diabetes

Jessica Kirikava shares her story of grit and hope and remarkable recovery.

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‘Take diabetes seriously or end up like me’

As a young man, Shane Torrance believed he was bulletproof.

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Friends through highs and lows

Lexi Pottinger has type 1 diabetes and Mya Gane has dyslexia. Cycling the Queen Charlotte Track allowed them to show how people with different conditions can support each other.

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Blind from diabetes: Auckland man saved with 24 hours to live

Aucklander Martin Taylor-Smith is lucky to be alive after he went temporarily blind due to a diabetic complication he had no idea about.

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Tauranga man on the road to health and wellness

Craig Kawiti has experienced a few health scares in recent years – a brain tumour, followed by a heart attack – but it took being told his type two diabetes would have to be treated with insulin injections to jolt him into making some serious lifestyle changes.

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A cartoonist in interesting times

Author, illustrator, and cartoonist Sarah Laing has type 1 diabetes. During Level 4 in 2020, she posted regular comic strips online about her experience.

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'Mummy, when does my diabetes go away?’

Lisa Wiggins was devastated when her first child, a son, became desperately ill and was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Not even 18 months later her little girl was given the same diagnosis.

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“I hated almost every minute of the marathon!”

Aucklander Tim Haslop, who has type 1 diabetes, raised more than $2,500 for diabetes in the ASB Auckland Marathon - and hated almost every minute of the run. But he and says the wider experience was among the best of his life.

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Getting real

When Jody O’Callaghan told her type 1 diabetes story on a national news site, she was unprepared for the huge response.

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Creating for good

West Auckland designer and illustrator Janina Gaudin uses her skills to support the diabetes community here and internationally. Katie Doyle caught up with her.

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