My name is Dr. Patricia Okoye. I am forty-eight years old and I am a board-certified family medicine physician in a group practice in Ohio. Approximately forty percent of my patient load involves management of type 2 diabetes or prediabetes…
For a long time, I avoided talking openly about my blood sugar struggles. Like many adults in their late forties who have not yet received a diabetes diagnosis but know something is metabolically wrong, I had been managing a constellation…
For a long time, I avoided talking openly about my blood sugar struggles. Like many adults in their mid-forties who have not yet received a formal diabetes diagnosis but recognize something is metabolically wrong, I had been quietly living with…
My name is Sandra. I am sixty-one years old, retired after thirty-two years as a fourth-grade teacher, and I have been growing vegetables in my backyard in rural Tennessee since 1987. I know the difference between plants that thrive and…
I spent 24 years as an operating room nurse and developed the occupational hazard that affects a significant proportion of nursing professionals: type 2 diabetes. It arrived quietly at 51, managed well with metformin and lifestyle changes, and I had…
For a long time, I avoided talking openly about my blood sugar struggles. Like many adults in their mid-forties with a family history of type 2 diabetes, I had been watching my fasting glucose numbers creep upward year by year…