TCOYD Newsletter 2016 Spring VOL 54

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NEWSLETTER

TCOYD IS A 501(C)3 NONPROFIT CHARITABLE EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION

Spring 2016 DR EDELMAN’S CORNER WITH JEREMY PETTUS, MD

When Diabetes Gets Complicated Inside PA G E 4

Favorite Free Apps PA G E 6

Ask Your Doctor PA G E 8

Giving Back PA G E 1 0

Upgrade Your Glucose Meter! PA G E 1 1

Case of the Month PA G E 1 2

Home Run Breakfast PA G E 1 3

Faces of TCOYD PA G E 1 4

53 Years of Diligence PA G E 1 5

Eating Well

And what could be more complicated than diabetes complications? Yes, that’s right. It’s not a fun or funny topic. In fact, it’s the opposite of those things, but it is something that we do need to talk about. I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce you, our readers, to my friend and colleague, Dr. Jeremy Pettus. I first met Jeremy when he did his endocrinology training at UCSD. Like me, Jeremy also has type 1 diabetes. Since he completed his endocrinology fellowship and arrived on staff at UCSD and the VA, Jeremy has been very involved with TCOYD and has been directing the dedicated Type 1 Track at our TCOYD conferences. Collaborating on this article together, what we want to discuss is not how to prevent complications, or the rates of complications, or other “medical” things, but rather the struggle we all face when confronting them. Because we have differing perspectives on this topic, I thought it would be relevant to talk about this from our own points of view

— Jeremy having never really developed complications (knock on wood)— and the fact that I have several. This difference is really the result of when we were diagnosed and how much things have changed relatively quickly. We hope that you will all find something you can relate to in our stories that represent the history of diabetes over the last several decades. Jeremy’s Story I was diagnosed in 1995 at the age of 15 (that makes me 29), which was very shortly after the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) study was published. As many of you know, this was the study that finally proved that controlling blood glucose mattered in terms of reducing complications. I still can’t believe that this took until 1993 to definitively prove. This C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 2


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