GlucoStories – Inspirational Diabetes Stories

Good / Bad: 2006 While delivering papers had chest pain rushed to ER developed pneumonia that became more life threatening when it became empyema and could have killed me and sugars were in 500s had to have emergency surgery developed multiple areas of neuropathy.

My name is Tisha P. and I live in Alabama. I am a 40-year-old who was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 2. Back in those days there were no blood glucose monitors. They didn’t even prick your fingers. They had small pointed razor blades that made small slits on the end of your fingers. […]

September 28, 2008 was the worst day of our lives. We were the perfect family. I am a working mother and we are fortunate that my husband can be a stay at home father. We have a beautiful only child named Noah (in honor of my love of animals). Great life. Great home.

I was diagnosed with type II diabetes after my first doctor told me it was just stress and thyroid making me tired. My new doctor took my blood sugar and the reading was in the high 400s.

In 1990, I had my first experience with gestational diabetes. The care was less than ideal, but I did deliver a premature baby boy. (He’s healthy today).

In May of 2007, I started having horrible headaches that would not go away, no matter what I did. It wasn’t like a migraine or sinus headache, nothing I’d […]

Monday, September 8, 2008 was the day our family officially grew from four to five. The kids stayed home from school and we had breakfast together before heading to the courthouse. Everyone was really excited, as if we were going to the hospital to meet the new addition to our family. At the courthouse, we were […]

one of my puppies was having difficulty standing up so i took her to the vet. several tests and hundreds of dollars later she was diagnosed with diabetes. i took her to the vet early on so many mornings, for her to be tested all day to determine her dosage, that i can’t count them. in […]

When I found out that I had diabetes I have to admit that I was not all that surprised. I’ll get to that later. What did surprise me was the high cost of the testing materials at my local drug store. Because of this I began searching the internet for a good place to obtain diabetes […]

Out of three siblings, my brother and I share type 1 diabetes. It is a bond we never asked for, but I considered us blessed to have it together. While I consider my diabetes to be a part of my identity, I do not wish it to belong to anyone else. I see the great potential […]

How to get Diabetes

While I am sure that there are many people out there who have done what I have done. And still have not developed Diabetes, this is how I did it, so it can serve perhaps as a guide to those who don’t know. I sincerely hope that, if it is to be used […]