# Today marks 11 years **URL:** \ **Category:** Type 1 & LADA\ **Created:** [December 21, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/today-marks-11-years/2920 "2017-12-21T16:26:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![docslotnick](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/docslotnick/32/75_2.png) [@docslotnick](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/docslotnick)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/today-marks-11-years/2920/21 "2017-12-21T20:01:46Z")
> [@Eric](#): > > but I would assume he was more like a T2 since he lasted 8 years? I really don’t know for sure, except he was diagnosed at age 23 (I believe). And my Mom always said he was pretty sick and couldn’t work much. She said my diagnosis reminded her of her father. ---
**Author:** ![Jen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/jen/32/4777_2.png) [@Jen](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Jen)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/today-marks-11-years/2920/22 "2017-12-21T20:58:10Z")
> [@Aaron](#): > > That would be 4 years of a pretty miserable life on a calorie restricted diet. I read a book about her experience. I didn’t realize until reading it just how bad even being alive without insulin was. She wasn’t able to stand to get out of a chair and could barely walk without support. Catching a cold took weeks to recover from and almost killed her. She had a nurse taking care of her 24/7, and had to live away from her family in a secluded location because the “excitement” of normal life was too much and caused her to spill more glucose into her urine. I think she ate about 800 calories of zero-carb foods a day. Apparently, when insulin was discovered she was very close to death and her family managed to get her in to see Dr. Banting shortly after hearing news of its discovery (many patients had to wait a year or more after its discovery to get it, and obviously many didn’t survive that year). Reading that book definitely made me thankful for insulin. ---
**Author:** ![Beacher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a6a055/32.png) [@Beacher](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Beacher)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/today-marks-11-years/2920/23 "2017-12-21T22:07:07Z")
> [@Eric](#): > > In January 1922, 14 year-old Leonard Thompson was the first person with diabetes to receive an insulin injection. Oh wow! Thank you for remembering Leonard. Usually that girl gets the credit even though she wasn’t the first, because she was American and Canadians get overlooked even when we’re FIRST IN THE WORLD. Here’s a little story about Leonard Thompson from my local paper. [http://www.beachmetro.com/2017/01/10/canadas-150th-miracle-boy-beach/](http://www.beachmetro.com/2017/01/10/canadas-150th-miracle-boy-beach/) ---
**Author:** ![amymc](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/amymc/32/5993_2.png) [@amymc](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/amymc)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/today-marks-11-years/2920/24 "2017-12-22T00:27:18Z")
the lady lived till 1981 🙂…now that is awesome…im sure her stories about diabetes were memerable and nice to hear about how it was back then ---
**Author:** ![Jen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/jen/32/4777_2.png) [@Jen](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Jen)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2017, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/today-marks-11-years/2920/25 "2017-12-22T00:31:32Z")
> [@amymc](#): > > im sure her stories about diabetes were memerable and nice to hear about how it was back then From what I’ve heard, I think she kept quiet about it and I think people around her may not have even known that she had diabetes? I imagine that the years she lived before insulin was available were pretty dark for her. ---
**Author:** ![amymc](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/amymc/32/5993_2.png) [@amymc](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/amymc)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2017, 1:47am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/today-marks-11-years/2920/26 "2017-12-22T01:47:04Z")
mustve of been. her story does sound interesting tho and makes me wanna read more about her ---
**Author:** ![Gary](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/gary/32/1471_2.png) [@Gary](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Gary)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2017, 3:42am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/today-marks-11-years/2920/27 "2017-12-22T03:42:46Z")
> [@amymc](#): > > :)…now that is a new word, pumpversary :)…i like it :)…i dont know when mine was. i just know it was during the cold weather season. Funny, I do not know my diaversary. The date wasn’t important to me at the time, now my pumpversary I know, it was a couple of days ago on Dec19 six years ago that I first strapped on an infusion set. ---
**Author:** ![MM2](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/mm2/32/3032_2.png) [@MM2](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/MM2)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2017, 5:56am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/today-marks-11-years/2920/28 "2017-12-22T05:56:18Z")
My pumpversary was around Sept 1996. I had been thinking about it for a couple months, and an overseas business trip came up that convinced me it would be easier with pump. When I started pump, they wanted me to do several days with saline, while still doing injections. But convinced them it was better for me to go straight to insulin, and it worked fine. ---
**Author:** ![amymc](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/amymc/32/5993_2.png) [@amymc](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/amymc)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2017, 6:08am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/today-marks-11-years/2920/29 "2017-12-22T06:08:07Z")
i did the straight saline while still on injections. i messed up the first time i used the pump. then i got the hang of it. now im a pro at it…im even getting to know what the error messages are without calling animas as i learned from them what they are. [Previous page](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/today-marks-11-years/2920.md?page=1)