# An all too familiar story
**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/an-all-too-familiar-story/6383
**Category:** Type 1 & LADA
**Created:** [February 1, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/an-all-too-familiar-story/6383 "2019-02-01T17:58:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Irish](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Irish)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/an-all-too-familiar-story/6383/1 "2019-02-01T17:58:05Z")
Hello, friends from an erstwhile regular member.
I’ve had this community on my mind this week especially since reading this:
> **[To save his parents money, this diabetic teen cut back on his insulin](https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/30/health/rising-drug-costs/index.html)**
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> Dillon Hooley loves his parents, so when he heard last year they were struggling to pay for his insulin, he wanted to help out any way he could. So to save them some money he cut back drastically--and dangerously--on his medicine.
Forgive me, if this has already been a discussion this week. I bring it up now to say that I reached out to Dillon’s mom over fb. She’s been inundated with messages this week, as we’d expect. I invited her to join here and mentioned Mark’s Pharmacy too. Obviously, Canada cannot be our final solution, but perhaps it’s a stop-gap. Speaking of Canada, I need to write a post about our recent in-person purchases there. Will try to get on that.
These stories like Dillon’s are so distressing and just seem to keep coming.
Warm regards to each of you and wishing I could me more regular here.
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2019, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/an-all-too-familiar-story/6383/2 "2019-02-01T18:08:07Z")
@Irish, so great to see you here!
By all means bring Dillon’s Mom over. There are few things that are more distressing than these stories we now read every week.
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2019, 12:08am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/an-all-too-familiar-story/6383/3 "2019-02-02T00:08:58Z")
Hi Irish, good to see you!
Do you know what type of insulin he uses?
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### Author:  [@Irish](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Irish)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2019, 12:10am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/an-all-too-familiar-story/6383/4 "2019-02-02T00:10:20Z")
Hi, @Eric! Glad to be here and to see these familiar faces! I don’t, but I could ask! His mom replied over fb.