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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Bill Pittman was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1938.
Just 17 years earlier, the disease was considered a death sentence.
Not long ago, the 78-year-old Niskayuna resident received a medal from the Joslin Diabetes Center recognizing the 75 years he’s lived with diabetes.
Insulin still was a fairly new diabetes treatment back when Pittman was diagnosed — it was used successfully on a patient for the first time in 1922. Prior to that, the only option was a starvation diet, said Matt Petersen, managing director of medical information for the American Diabetes Association.
http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2014/mar/09/0310diabetes/
Well done that man! 🙂
Just 17 years earlier, the disease was considered a death sentence.
Not long ago, the 78-year-old Niskayuna resident received a medal from the Joslin Diabetes Center recognizing the 75 years he’s lived with diabetes.
Insulin still was a fairly new diabetes treatment back when Pittman was diagnosed — it was used successfully on a patient for the first time in 1922. Prior to that, the only option was a starvation diet, said Matt Petersen, managing director of medical information for the American Diabetes Association.
http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2014/mar/09/0310diabetes/
Well done that man! 🙂