# The 75 Year Joslin Medal
**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-75-year-joslin-medal/10122
**Category:** Type 1 & LADA
**Created:** [August 12, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-75-year-joslin-medal/10122 "2020-08-12T21:34:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Daisydenae](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Daisydenae)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-75-year-joslin-medal/10122/21 "2020-08-16T13:43:44Z")
This is amazing! After the past 3 weeks of immense emotional rollercoasters and non stop confusion(still no actual answers), this made me cry in a good way! You’re inspiring and I thank you!
I would love to read your book! Would you be able to give me the name?
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### Author:  [@Richard157](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Richard157)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-75-year-joslin-medal/10122/22 "2020-08-16T14:04:09Z")
@Daisydenae, thanks for your reply. The Amazon link for my book was given to PegE. Look at that post above your post.
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### Author:  [@desrv1](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/desrv1)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2020, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-75-year-joslin-medal/10122/23 "2020-08-17T15:33:43Z")
Congratulations to Richard and having 75 years as a type one. I am almost 56 years now because I was 14 when discovered and I’m closing in on 70. I have almost 20 years before I can get the 75 year award! I’m feeling pretty good and hopefully I’ll make it those 20 more years to 90! Dave
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-75-year-joslin-medal/10122/24 "2020-08-18T17:07:36Z")
You are a major inspiration @Richard157 thanks! I’m behind you, but coming up this October on my 50.
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### Author:  [@docslotnick](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/docslotnick)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 11:35pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-75-year-joslin-medal/10122/25 "2020-08-20T23:35:43Z")
@Richard157 Truly Amazing for a guy who the doctors at the time said would only live another few years! Boy, did you fool them.
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### Author:  [@Richard157](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Richard157)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 12:37am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-75-year-joslin-medal/10122/26 "2020-08-21T00:37:58Z")
@docslotnick, children diagnosed in the 1940s were not expected to live beyond their teen years. I’m glad my parents and I did not know that back then. It was not until I was 30 that I found that information. I was old enough then to be able to cope with it. I was finished with college, employed. married and with two sons. My life was set, and I was very healthy. I was not worried about dying, not at all.
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### Author:  [@PegE](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/PegE)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2020, 5:25am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-75-year-joslin-medal/10122/27 "2020-08-30T05:25:25Z")
I’m enjoying your book, Richard! I am so thankful we now have better tools than urine testing. I only had to do that for a couple of years after my diagnosis. Glad you had such a caring family watching out for your lows with you, growing up.
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### Author:  [@ClaudnDaye](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/ClaudnDaye)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2020, 5:34am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-75-year-joslin-medal/10122/28 "2020-08-30T05:34:24Z")
I was born in SW VA also and grew up around Dublin, Fairlawn and Radford. Family lives all around there now from Roanoke to Pulaski. Small world.
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### Author:  [@TomH](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/TomH)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-75-year-joslin-medal/10122/29 "2021-03-14T18:15:43Z")
Congratulations on living with T1 this long. Even more so for being a pioneer and ground breaker for those of us more recently diagnosed! I hope you’ve already received one of the vaccines, the ceremony goes forward, and you plan to go!
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### Author:  [@Richard157](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Richard157)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2021, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-75-year-joslin-medal/10122/30 "2021-03-14T19:31:54Z")
Hello @TomH, I had both shots of the vaccine. I feel much more at ease in public now. I still wear a mask and stay at a safe distance so I will protect the people who have not been vaccinated.
How about you? Have you had your vaccine yet?
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### Author:  [@TomH](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/TomH)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2021, 9:28pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-75-year-joslin-medal/10122/31 "2021-03-14T21:28:23Z")
Yes, I just got my 2nd dose on Friday. Wife gets hers Thursday. We count ourselves fortunate as many friends don’t as yet, but hopefully soon! As a recent T1, I’m inspired by you! Stay well!
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### Author:  [@Richard157](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Richard157)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/the-75-year-joslin-medal/10122/32 "2021-03-14T22:20:39Z")
My wife gets her second dose on April 1…that is April Fools Day. She is not superstitious, so we will be there that day.
I have neighbors who do not intend to get the vaccine. They are much younger than us.
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