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Making Lemonade from Lemons: Meet the Osers, for Whom Diabetes is a Family Affair

For our Tandem Blog series, Making Lemonade from Lemons, we’ll profile people with diabetes (PWD) who’ve squeezed lemons from the diagnosis of diabetes and made lemonade - they exemplify this expression. This one features a family affair! Sean Oser, a family medicine physician and diabetes researcher has had type 1 diabetes (T1D) for over 30 years. Sean’s daughter, Jessica, a fraternal twin, now 17, has had T1D for over 10 years.
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Runner with Type 1 Diabetes Aims to Cross America on Foot in Record Time Using Automated Insulin Delivery Insulin Pump from Tandem Diabetes Care

We are pleased to share that our t:slim X2™ insulin pump with Basal-IQ® technology will be used by long-distance runner Don Muchow on his #T1Determined Type 1 Diabetes Run Across America. Starting February 1, 2020, Muchow will attempt to become the fastest person with type 1 diabetes ever to run across the Continental United States.
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Running With Diabetes: Don Muchow Runs Across Texas in Fastest Known Time

Don Muchow started running in 2004 after a laser treatment for diabetes-related retinopathy. Running was a cheap way to start being active. Once he got going, he needed a community of other people with type 1 diabetes to learn from and exchange ideas about exercise. He started the Diabetes & Exercise Alliance. In March 2019, with support from that community and his wife, Leslie, Don ran across Texas -- 850 miles in 27 days. He set a FKT by 2.5 days.
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Alex Martin - Obstacle course racing with type 1 diabetes

Alex Martin is an amateur obstacle course racer and founder of the College Diabetes Network (CDN) chapter at Mercyhurst University. We caught up with her at the 2018 CDN Retreat in Bridgton, Maine, about her racing.
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#tsliminthewild with ice skater Chloe Glabach

Chloe was an ice skater before she began living with diabetes. And even though all she could do was cry after she was diagnosed, now she says that not much has changed in her life since then.
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Dee Anne Gauthier learned diabetes alongside Dr. Elliot Joslin

t:slim Pump user Dee Ann Gauthier remembers traveling by bus on Sundays from Clara Barton diabetes camp for girls to Dr. Elliott Joslin’s private estate in Vermont where she spent the day eating watermelon and petting his horses with other girls with diabetes. 50 years later she walked through the doors of the Joslin clinic to accept her 50-year Joslin medal that recognizes individuals who have lived with insulin-dependent diabetes.
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Making Lemonade from Lemons: Meet the Osers, for Whom Diabetes is a Family Affair

Runner with Type 1 Diabetes Aims to Cross America on Foot in Record Time Using Automated Insulin Delivery Insulin Pump from Tandem Diabetes Care

Running With Diabetes: Don Muchow Runs Across Texas in Fastest Known Time

Alex Martin - Obstacle course racing with type 1 diabetes

#tsliminthewild with ice skater Chloe Glabach

Dee Anne Gauthier learned diabetes alongside Dr. Elliot Joslin

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