Rebecca was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at eight years old. By the time she reached her twenties, floaters began to appear, affecting her vision.
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Diabetes NZ’s Brave Bear pack for children has been flying off the shelves since it was launched in November. Cassy Hay, and her daughter Zanthia, 4, from Katikati, explain how it’s been helping them learn about diabetes.
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As a double-amputee, Paul Rowland has been dealing with a stretched and unwieldy health system, but he is, as he says, ‘a stubborn bugger’.
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Twelve-year-old Sophia Shearman couldn’t believe it when she won our competition to design a sensor patch.
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My gut feeling was correct. Correct but heart breaking for our Dallas aged 9.
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This CGM has saved me from countless deadly lows and some that I couldn’t feel/didn’t know were there
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Business and life coach Eugene Moreau has struggled through dark times and made it out. The wisdom and conviction he shares with his clients comes from personal experience.
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13-year-old Lily Barton has one precious memory before her diagnosis at four – eating ice cream with her gran at the movies.
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Being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes was the start of a new experience, like the start of a new round of golf
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Diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at 37 years old, Iain MacDonald is competing in the Tarawera 102km Ultramarathon in February 2022 as a way of testing his body to its absolute limit, physically, mentally and ‘diabetically’.
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Dame Valerie Adams was busy training for the Olympics when her son, Kepaleli, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
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Ben Mitchell spent a month cycling solo from Cape Reinga to Bluff to raise money for Diabetes NZ. He didn’t find out till he was almost finished that his wife Beverley – who lives with type 1 – had been keeping a secret that would have sent him rushing home.
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Aucklander Martin Taylor-Smith is lucky to be alive after he went temporarily blind due to a diabetic complication he had no idea about.
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Aucklander Tim Haslop, who has type 1 diabetes, raised more than $2,500 for diabetes in the ASB Auckland Marathon - and hated almost every minute of the run. But he and says the wider experience was among the best of his life.
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Alone and struggling to keep his spirits up on a gruelling cycle tour, Will Pickering turned to charity fundraising.
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Last year Ben Trollip set himself the challenge of completing a marathon to raise funds for Diabetes NZ. Here he shares his story and some practical tips on how to train for a marathon.
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