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Tackling Diabetes

11/29/2014

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When I can write a blog about a fellow diabetic and sports, it makes me happy, when that athlete is in high school it makes me ecstatic.  My diabetes struggles in high school are well known by now, my experiences have me believing that a diagnosis of diabetes while in high school is one of the toughest times to be diagnosed with diabetes.  Obviously there is no prime time to be diagnosed with diabetes, but when you are diagnosed with diabetes while in high school your whole world is turned upside down.  When you get that diagnosis you can decide to fight like hell and take control of your disease or you can have a pity party and pretend like you don't have diabetes, much like I did when I was that age.

To take control of your diabetes while in high school is a truly amazing feat, in a time when you're worried about cars, girlfriends or boyfriends, college and being cool a disease like diabetes often gets forgotten.  To take control of diabetes while in high school is great, throw in playing a varsity sport and the challenge is that much tougher.  That is just what Nick Lindholm has done though, Nick a senior at Stonington High School was diagnosed with diabetes his sophomore year of high school.  This morning this article in The Westerly Sun caught my eye and I couldn't help but smile while reading it.  As I read the article I was taken back to the football game on Thursday, I do the chains for Westerly, it's fun and one of the best seats in the house for a game.  I was checking my CGM on the sidelines during the game and I could hear someone saying "Nick look, he has the same thing as you."  I thought nothing of it and went on watching the game, I now know that one Nicks teammates was excited to see that someone else had the same CGM as his friend and teammate.  I just wish I was a little more attentive, I'd love to sit down with Nick and share some stories, hopefully he reads this and it can be done.  I have a lot of diabetic friends that are athletes but only a few that are local, to add another diabetic athlete to talk to is always great.

It is very clear that Nick has his diabetes under control, I'm a little jealous of Nick.  I can only dream about what my life would have been like if I accepted my diabetes earlier in life.  Nick will be my age one day and will never have to look back and think about what could have been, that puts a huge smile on my face.  I wish Nick the best in all of his future endeavors and I hope that he knows that he is a role model to diabetics of all age.
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