Texting My Pancreas: Diabetes Awareness Month: My T1D Footprint.

November is Diabetes Awareness Month (or some variation of that moniker), and JDRF created an easy-to-use tool that helps you calculate some of your personal T1D stats. How much of a footprint has T1D made in my last 30 years of life? Here’s a small sample:

You can calculate your own at jdrf.org/T1DLooksLikeMe

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