JP's Story

JP has had T1D for 27 years and runs the Instagram page @lifesize1 where she stays connected with T1DS all over the world. 

 

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Jordan's Story

Jordan Laiche has had T1D for 6 years and is currently a collegiate Hockey player at the University Of New Mexico and just finished biking across America with Team Bike Beyond. Jordan wears number 16 for fellow T1D hockey players Max Domi and Bobby Clarke.

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Peggy's Story

Peggy Nichols is a 27 year old type 1 diabetic whose had T1D for four years. Peggy overcame a horrific motorcycle accident. Which left her very injured. however; Peggy was back on her motorcycle in 6 weeks.

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Olivia's Story

Olivia Polischeck is a 18 year old from Palos Verdes Estates, California. Olivia has had T1D for seven years, and will be attending Amherst college In Massachusetts in the fall where she will be running cross country and track and majoring in Political science and hopes to eventually get a law degree.

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Jordan's Story

Jordan Hoese has had T1D since she was 12 years old. She is currently halfway through medical school, earning both her MD and Master's in Public Health. She also became the youngest T1D to complete a marathon at age 14 and will be running the New York City Marathon as part of Beyond Type Run This November.

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Michelle's Story

Michelle Lord is a 27 year old who has had Type 1 Diabetes since she was 12 years old. MIchelle runs the YouTube page Michelle Lord where she aims to show people the everyday life of a T1D.

 

photo credits- Tomas Urlich  

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Alex's Story

Alex Donnelly lives in New York City and will be completing his fourth marathon in the fall while raising money for diabetes research. 

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Marci's Story

Marci Tatham is a 26 year old Type 1 diabetic living in Irvine, California. Marci is a global ambassador for Beyond type 1 , and will be running the New York Marathon in November.

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Jillian's story

Jillian Rippolone has been Type 1 diabetic for 20 years and is from Long Island, New York but lives in Michigan, Jillian also runs the Facebook page Type 1 titans and instagram page @t1dchick which has over 14,000 followers, and she also sells trendy diabetic alert bracelets in which she donates apart of the sales to JDRF

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Abigail's story

Abigail Bensman has been Type 1 diabetic for two and a half years and runs the website www.slowdownsugar.com and Instagram page @slowdownsugar_ where she focuses on the positive side of diabetes rather than the negative. 

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Oren's Story

Oren Liebermann is a CNN correspondent based in Jerusalem, who just 3 months after his diagnosis in 2014, hiked the Great wall of China. Oren is also the author of the book The Insulin Express: One Backpack, Five Continents, and the Diabetes Diagnosis That Changed Everything. about his diagnosis and perspective to learn about his book go to the Interesting stuff for T1D's tab.

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