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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Just days before Josh Densten celebrated his 27th birthday his whole life was turned upside down.
Diagnosed with adult-onset type 1 diabetes, The Block's two year contestant thought life would never be the same as he tried to absorb the information given to him by his local doctor in Melbourne nearly a year and a half ago.
Rather than letting the diagnosis bring him down, Josh, who is now 28, vowed to take a positive approach and has committed himself to educating others on the condition.
'There are a lot of worse things that could have happened and I am lucky to have been diagnosed later in life,' Josh told Daily Mail Australia.
But that was not the Melbourne plumber's initial reaction to his life-threatening condition.
Having never known anyone with diabetes and having no awareness on the condition, it took five weeks before Josh took warning signs seriously.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...betes-diagnosis-vows-help-educate-others.html
Diagnosed with adult-onset type 1 diabetes, The Block's two year contestant thought life would never be the same as he tried to absorb the information given to him by his local doctor in Melbourne nearly a year and a half ago.
Rather than letting the diagnosis bring him down, Josh, who is now 28, vowed to take a positive approach and has committed himself to educating others on the condition.
'There are a lot of worse things that could have happened and I am lucky to have been diagnosed later in life,' Josh told Daily Mail Australia.
But that was not the Melbourne plumber's initial reaction to his life-threatening condition.
Having never known anyone with diabetes and having no awareness on the condition, it took five weeks before Josh took warning signs seriously.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...betes-diagnosis-vows-help-educate-others.html