Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
When Margaret Sligar was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes as a toddler, insulin was a new treatment for a disease that not long prior would have typically meant death within a couple of years.
Sligar recently was celebrated in a reception at Arbor Trace in Richmond to mark more than 75 years of insulin use and successful management of her disease. Now 89, she’s actually used the medicine for 87 years. The recognition, by the Lilly Foundation and presented by Reid endocrinologist Dr. Erica Kretchman, includes a medallion and the placement of Sligar’s name on a monument at Lilly headquarters in Indianapolis.
Kretchman, who helps Sligar continue to manage her lifelong illness and who is herself a Type 1, said Sligar is an inspiration.
http://www.pal-item.com/story/news/...in-use-fighting-diabetes-recognized/17714773/
Wow! 87 years! 😱 🙂
Sligar recently was celebrated in a reception at Arbor Trace in Richmond to mark more than 75 years of insulin use and successful management of her disease. Now 89, she’s actually used the medicine for 87 years. The recognition, by the Lilly Foundation and presented by Reid endocrinologist Dr. Erica Kretchman, includes a medallion and the placement of Sligar’s name on a monument at Lilly headquarters in Indianapolis.
Kretchman, who helps Sligar continue to manage her lifelong illness and who is herself a Type 1, said Sligar is an inspiration.
http://www.pal-item.com/story/news/...in-use-fighting-diabetes-recognized/17714773/
Wow! 87 years! 😱 🙂