I’ve had some adventures living the T1D life.

Banting Juice user since 1973. Formerly avid poster/reader on TuDiabetes starting in 2008. Since 2019, I have been an active Champion working as an advocate with the Diabetes Patient Advocacy Coalition (DPAC) with multiple trips to Capitol Hill. DPAC advocates for realistic, beneficial legislation for people with all types of diabetes.

Diagnosed at 19, pump user since 1999, CGM user since 2013. I somehow survived 23 years on 40-50 units of NPH 1x/day 7 & never testing, A1c blood draws were unknown to me, but I had to eat at 7AM, 12 Noon and 6PM, or my BG would crash and my vision would be filled with solarized starbursts.

I lived on a sailboat, cruising from Maine to Aruba 2006 - 2010. Met my wife in 2011 and we pedaled and camped and pedaled our recumbent trikes across the USA in 2016, followed by Vancouver BC - Los Angeles, CA in 2017.