Becky's Story

Becky Furuta is a road cyclist for Team Novo Nordisk from Boulder, Colorado who was diagnosed at age 28. When Becky is not competing for Team Novo Nordisk she is also the mother of two small children.

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Ryan's Story

Ryan Phillips is one of the founders of Circle 8 logistics who was diagnosed with T1D at age 20 since his diagnosis he has ran three Ironman races, the Chicago and Boston marathon, and many half ironman races he also raised over $35,000 running for team Joslin which benifeted the Joslin Diabetes Center.

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Mandy's Story

Mandy Marquardt is a track cyclist for Team Novo Nordisk from Pennsylvania. Mandy is a eleven-time U.S. National Champion.  She represented Team USA at the 2014 and 2015 UCI Track World Cups and representedTeam USA again at the 2016 UCI Track World Cup in Los Angeles.

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Mike's Story

Mike Natter is a medical professional from New York city who lives and works in Philadelphia . Mike was diagnosed with T1D at age 9 and makes art about different medical topics including T1D and some of his work is featured on the website in the interesting stuff for T1D's tab.

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Anita's Story

Anita Nicole Brown is a type 1 diabetic actress who has been in movies such as Crisis Function, A woman and a gun and has also been in episodes of the NBC series Chicago Fire.

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Salvador's Story

Salvador Martinez is a 36 year old runner from Mexico, who runs for team Novo Nordisk which is a team of diabetic cyclists, runners, and triathletes whose mission is to inspire, educate and empower people affected by diabetes. Here Salvador is pictured with his wife and daughter after a race

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Dan's Story

Dan Piper is a type 1 diabetic since 2011 from the United Kingdom, he runs a blog called "The Healthy Diabetic" where he inspires other type 1 diabetics and writes about maintaining and living a healthy lifestyle despite being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes

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Ron's Story

Ron Skubisz is PGA Pro at Pottawatomie Golf Course in St. Charles, Illinois. He not only helps me with my golf game, but also has helped my family and I cope with having type 1 diabetes. He was one of the first people I talked to after I got diagnosed, and is always there if I ever have a question or concern

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Shawn's Story

Shawn Forrest (In the blue) is a professional runner from Australia. Shawn was an NCAA runner-up in the 10k in 2008 for the university of Arkansas who was diagnosed with T1d in 2014. He recently completed the London marathon dedicating his run to children fighting t1d and is a huge inspiration to me and T1d's like me everywhere.

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Daniel's Story

Daniel Mcgarry and Jake Kaufman have known each other since they were little league teammates at a very young age.  They were also diagnosed with T1D almost 1 year apart. Daniel helps run T1dlikeme with Jake and they are the hosts of the t1dwithme podcast.

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Jake's Story

T1Dlikeme founder Jake Kaufman was diagnosed a few months into his freshman year of college. Since his diagnosis he has created this site to share stories from type 1s like himself from around the world to inspire others.

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