Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Eleven years ago, Manny Hernandez was diagnosed with diabetes. At first it was misdiagnosed as type 2, but he and physicians got that sorted out. Hernandez actually had type 1, requiring regular insulin shots.
?That's when it really sunk in,? he says. ?That I had this.?
And it wasn't going away.
Hernandez, a Venezuelan-born engineer and techie who lives in Berkeley, is president of the Diabetes Hands Foundation, a group he co-founded with his wife, artist Andreina Davila. Hernandez also started the first social network for diabetics, the English-language TuDiabetes.org (?Your Diabetes? in Spanish). It has a companion site in Spanish, EsTuDiabetes.org. The two sites have more than 50,000 registered users from around the world. More than just warehouses for information about diabetes symptoms, dangers and treatments, it's a gathering place where users can share stories, ask and answer questions and support one another.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/diabetes-594832-hernandez-insulin.html
?That's when it really sunk in,? he says. ?That I had this.?
And it wasn't going away.
Hernandez, a Venezuelan-born engineer and techie who lives in Berkeley, is president of the Diabetes Hands Foundation, a group he co-founded with his wife, artist Andreina Davila. Hernandez also started the first social network for diabetics, the English-language TuDiabetes.org (?Your Diabetes? in Spanish). It has a companion site in Spanish, EsTuDiabetes.org. The two sites have more than 50,000 registered users from around the world. More than just warehouses for information about diabetes symptoms, dangers and treatments, it's a gathering place where users can share stories, ask and answer questions and support one another.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/diabetes-594832-hernandez-insulin.html