June 15 1968 A Violent Fateful Beginning to a 55+ Year T1D Journey

Love to hear your feedback, text us!This podcast recounts events of a violent, fateful first day in June, 1968, in my 55+ year journey as a Type 1 diabetic.  A growing part of the medical community believe that Type 1 diabetes is triggered when a confluence of inherited genes combine with environmental factors, to cause the body's immune system to attack its own pancreatic cells, and terminate its normal functioning.  In my case, whether I carried the genes is an open issue. But a key environmental factor is suspected to be  the trauma I experienced one day in Chicago during the Summer of 1968.   Luckily, the trauma was NOT fatal, only fateful, the consequences I live with comfortably 55 years later.   Support the show