As a young man, Shane Torrance believed he was bulletproof.
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Lexi Pottinger has type 1 diabetes and Mya Gane has dyslexia. Cycling the Queen Charlotte Track allowed them to show how people with different conditions can support each other.
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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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Craig Kawiti has experienced a few health scares in recent years – a brain tumour, followed by a heart attack – but it took being told his type two diabetes would have to be treated with insulin injections to jolt him into making some serious lifestyle changes.
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Author, illustrator, and cartoonist Sarah Laing has type 1 diabetes. During Level 4 in 2020, she posted regular comic strips online about her experience.
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Lisa Wiggins was devastated when her first child, a son, became desperately ill and was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Not even 18 months later her little girl was given the same diagnosis.
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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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When Jody O’Callaghan told her type 1 diabetes story on a national news site, she was unprepared for the huge response.
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West Auckland designer and illustrator Janina Gaudin uses her skills to support the diabetes community here and internationally. Katie Doyle caught up with her.
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Sophie Devine , Captain of the White Ferns, wants young people with diabetes to see all the possibilities that are open to them in sport.
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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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Multisports athlete Emily Wilson was 22 when she found out she had type 1 diabetes. Six years later, she reflects on how it changed her life for the better.
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When Radio DJ Lee Weir went to a new doctor, who was surprised he’d never had routine blood tests.
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Emily Writes reaches out to other parents of children with type 1.
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Teenager Samantha Williams, from Auckland, reflects on her T1D journey and talks about some of the prejudices she has experienced.
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A diagnosis of type 2 diabetes took software engineer Alan Murray by surprise, but he was determined to see it as a positive.
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Teenager Samantha Williams, from Auckland, reflects on her T1D journey and talks about some of the prejudices she has experienced.
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It took three years and a heart attack before Karen Staveley was properly diagnosed with a slow-onset form of type 1 diabetes.
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Aimee Young’s diagnosis of gestational diabetes came as a shock – so did discovering she had type 1 eight years later.
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After his diabetes diagnosis, former top cop Phil Wright retired early from the New Zealand Police and set off with his wife Jackie on a round-the-world sailing odyssey.
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