Category: posted by Amy S. Mercer
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The Human Trial, a documentary
This is a such a moving documentary and I hope it’s watched by everyone who has been touched by diabetes. In 2011, Lisa Hepner and her husband Guy Mossman heard about a radical stem cell treatment for diabetes, a disease that shockingly kills more than five million people each year. Driven by a desire to…
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Diabetes and Social Media
I was diagnosed with type one diabetes in 1985. I was 14 years old and just six weeks into my freshman year at a boarding school about an hour and a half from home. I have a terrible memory in general, but I’ll never forget the day I was diagnosed because it divides my life…
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