This is a presentation about my life with type 1 diabetes. I was diagnosed with the disease 14 years ago. Many people confuse type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and because I am an adult, many people think I have type 2 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes affects people at any age, from any background. There is no cure. Yet.

1. Raise Your Voice: Allison’s Life with Diabetes in 10 slides (not counting this one)

6. Blood Sugar (Diabetes) Food Insulin Stress Hormones Exercise Illness Food isn’t the only thing that impacts blood sugar…. That’s a lot of unpredictable things to pay attention to!

10. Impact of Diabetes Diabetes supplies are very, very expensive. I can never be without health insurance. Diabetes also affects your family, because they have to take care of you when you’re young and worry about you when you move across the country. Diabetes also affects your body in the future. Complications from diabetes include blindness, kidney failure, heart disease and stroke. Diabetes can even cause death.