Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Brenda Altschul has conquered Type 1 diabetes ? traveling the world and living into her 70s ? and she?s happy to defy the odds for many more years to come.
?When you?re young, you have your whole life stretching in front of you, and this was more of an annoyance than anything else. I just wanted to get on with life,? the Sudbury woman said of being diagnosed in college.
Altschul, 71, has faced it all. She has endured brief diabetic comas and restaurants refusing to accommodate her food requests to keep her carbs under control. She also decided not to bear children. Yet, she?s visited Japan and cruised the Mississippi River.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/re...ry_not_to_dwell_on_it/srvc=home&position=also
?When you?re young, you have your whole life stretching in front of you, and this was more of an annoyance than anything else. I just wanted to get on with life,? the Sudbury woman said of being diagnosed in college.
Altschul, 71, has faced it all. She has endured brief diabetic comas and restaurants refusing to accommodate her food requests to keep her carbs under control. She also decided not to bear children. Yet, she?s visited Japan and cruised the Mississippi River.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/re...ry_not_to_dwell_on_it/srvc=home&position=also